Obama, Clinton, Palin : making history in election 2008 /

"Election 2008 made American history, but it was also the product of American history. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Sarah Palin smashed through some of the most enduring barriers to high political office, but their exceptional candidacies did not come out of nowhere. In these timely and a...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gidlow, Liette Patricia
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press [2011]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt2tt9t8
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Representations : is Hillary man enough? Is Barack black enough? Is Michelle the new Jacqueline Kennedy?
  • pt. II. Historical precedents, or How election 2008 began before the Civil War
  • pt. III. Legacies : democracy undermined? Feminism redefined?