Summary of Peniel E. Joseph's The Third Reconstruction

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#1 I was a huge Barack Obama fan, and I was excited about the prospect of him becoming president.

#2 I was a huge Obama fan, and I was excited about the prospect of him becoming president.

#3 I was a huge Obama fan, and I was excited about the prospect of him becoming president.

#4 I am a huge Obama fan and I was excited about him becoming president.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350031232

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Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had spent more than three years reading about and studying Obama, and I considered his election to be just short of impossible. Obama’s ability to call America toward realizing its full potential felt exhilaratingly improbable.

#2

I became a participant observer in the 2008 election, covering it for local, national, and global media outlets. I was shocked by the ultraconservative tenor that had produced shock and awe forty years earlier, and now it was just normal.

#3

I was proud to be able to watch Obama being inaugurated as the first Black president of the United States, but I also thought about all the Black people who had been killed by the police or by white mobs.

#4

I found myself captivated by Barack Obama’s characterization of America as a land of endless possibilities. He told Americans, including me, the best parts of our national story. He envisioned a new world being created out of the sacrifices of earlier generations of men and women who were courageous enough to believe in a