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<p><P><blockquote> <P> A fearless and incisive manifesto that exposes the real causes of President Obama's failure to enact liberal reform, by the former editor of <i>Harper's Magazine</i> <P> </blockquote> <P> Americans find themselves in genuine confusion and dismay concerning the actions of President Obama's administration, especially when it comes to the financial crisis and health care. Obama's reform packages, passed with great fanfare, ignore the most significant perils facing the United States. In <i>The Mendacity of Hope</i>, Roger D. Hodge makes the provocative case that substantive reform was never even on the table. Behind the euphoria of Obama's victory was in fact a business-as-usual corporate machine, a bloc of political investors, campaign contributors, and lobbyists expecting big returns on their investments. And what a return they have received&#58; in one bailout after another, for the health insurance industry as well as for Wall Street, Obama made sure that the Democratic Party's most powerful investors made out like bandits. <P>None of Obama's most important campaign promises&#151;ending the Iraq war, abolishing torture, closing Guant&#193;namo, changing Washi

Author

Hodge, Roger D.

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062024961

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences

Rating

3.7 / 5 (57 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14