{"product_id":"the-obama-syndrome-isbn-9781844677573","title":"The Obama Syndrome","description":"Written early in 2010 and initially published in September 2010, \u003ci\u003eThe Obama Syndrome\u003c\/i\u003e predicted the Obama administration’s historic midterm defeat. But unlike myriad commentators who have since pinned responsibility for that Democratic Party collapse on the “reform” president’s lack of firm resolve, Ali’s critique located the problem in Obama’s notion of reform itself. Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency by promising to escalate the war in Afghanistan, and his economic team brought the architects of the financial crisis into the White House. Small wonder then that the “War on Terror”—torture in Bagram, occupation in Iraq, appeasement in Israel, and escalation in Pakistan—continues. And that Wall Street and the country’s biggest corporations have all profited at the expense of America’s working class and poor. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow a thoroughly updated paperback continues the story through the midterms, including a trenchant analysis of the Tea Party, and Obama’s decision to continue with his predecessor’s tax cuts for the rich. Ali asks whether—in the absence of a progressive upheaval from below—US politics is permanently mired in moderate Republicanism. Already called “a comprehensive account” of the problems with Obama (\u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e), this new edition is sure to provide a more “powerful boost to Obama dissenters on the left” (\u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e).“Ali is smart as fire.”—Ian Epstein, \u003ci\u003eNew City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ali remains an outlier and intellectual bomb-thrower; an urbane, Oxford-educated polemicist.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Obama Syndrome\u003c\/i\u003e will be a powerful boost to Obama dissenters on the left.”—Bob Hoover, \u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Obama Syndrome\u003c\/i\u003e documents the collapse of the Myth into a thousand pieces.”—Vijay Prashad, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Darker Nations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eTariq Ali\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics—including \u003ci\u003ePirates of the Caribbean\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBush in Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Clash of Fundamentalisms\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Obama Syndrome\u003c\/i\u003e—as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e and lives in London.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305175666917,"sku":"NP9781844677573","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844677573.jpg?v=1767740760","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-obama-syndrome-isbn-9781844677573","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}