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An engrossing account of America on a knife's edge by one of Australia's most well known journalists.
In July 2009, Michael Brissenden, political editor for The 7.30 Report, moved to Washington to take up a new role as US current affairs correspondent for ABC TV. It promised to be a change, and a challenge.
Here is his fascinating account of his time in America, from an analysis of how Barack Obama meets the enormous expectations of those who voted him into office – and the equally enormous expectations of a world that hoped for big changes from his presidency – to the people Brissenden meets along the way, and the long and fractious political process that will either deliver Obama a chance to be a truly transformative president or place him along side one-term leaders like Jimmy Carter. With unprecedented scope to grapple with the issues, to travel across the country and to tell the stories of the players, the hopeful true believers, the skeptics, the winners and the losers, Brissenden writes with searing honesty and intelligence.
American Stories explores this extraordinary moment in American history and just how America's choices affect Australia and the rest of the world, and shows exactly what it's like to be a foreign correspondent in the lead-up to one of the world's most influential elections.
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A student's guide to modern USA in general and the Obama/Romney contest in particular. Many of the mysteries of American attitudes and values, so strange to the rest of us, are put under the microscope and so made clear.The viewing though is a little more left eyed than impartial journalistic analysis might be.
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| Prologue | p. 1 |
| Winning the race | p. 10 |
| Dancing with the city | p. 37 |
| Tea Party | p. 52 |
| America's Muslims and the mosque at Ground Zero | p. 73 |
| Wild politics | p. 86 |
| Arizona brewing - Guns, God and Mexicans | p. 104 |
| The whole enchilada | p. 121 |
| Little Havana - Big influence | p. 141 |
| 'Too close to the United States, not close enough to God' | p. 163 |
| Elvis has left the building | p. 177 |
| California screaming | p. 191 |
| Tales from the Motor City | p. 207 |
| West Virginia - Songs in the hollers | p. 220 |
| Obamacare | p. 231 |
| Mitt Romney's magic underpants | p. 245 |
| 'It's still the economy, stupid' | p. 263 |
| Election 2012 | p. 273 |
| Epilogue | p. 288 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 293 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780702238932
ISBN-10: 0702238937
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 304
Published: 25th July 2012
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.3
x 2.3
Weight (kg): 0.431
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