1st Edition

The State of Our Disunion The Obama Years

By Eugene Goodheart Copyright 2016
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

The US Constitution resists centralizing authority by granting equal power to the three branches of government, as well as the individual states. The risk inherent in the separation of powers is that the absence of a spirit of compromise can lead to the disintegration of the union. Eugene Good heart argues that the current union is in peril due to an unwillingness to cooperate on the part of... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The President and His Base

2 The Principle of Political Compromise

3 Media Narratives and Their Narrators

4 Presidential Debates and the Media

5 Obama's Executive Action on Immigration

6 The Constitution: Dead or Alive

7 Between Liberty and Equality

8 Does the Past Repeat Itself?

9 The Uncertainty Principle

10 On Progress

Coda

Index

Biography

Eugene Goodheart