38. Mark Knoller, “Obama’s First Term: By the Numbers,” CBSNews.com, 19 January 2013; “Oprah Talks to the Obamas,” O Magazine, November 2012; Christopher H. Pyle, “Barack Obama and Civil Liberties,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 42 (December 2012): 867–80; David K. Shipler, “Will Obama the Constitutional Lawyer Please Stand Up?,” Nation, 23 January 2013; Franklin Foer and Chris Hughes, “Barack Obama Is Not Pleased,” TNR, 27 January 2013; Obama on 60 Minutes, CBS, 27 January 2013; Peter Baker, “Obama’s Turn in Bush’s Bind,” NYT, 9 February 2013; Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, “Obama, the Puppet Master,” Politico, 18 February 2013; John Podesta, “Obama Should Lift Secrecy on Drones,” WP, 13 March 2013 (Obama “is acting in opposition to the democratic principles we hold most important”); Obama, commencement speech at Morehouse College, 19 May 2013; Carol Felsenthal, “Obama’s Buddy Eric Whitaker: Is He Clueless or What?,” CM, 12 August 2013; Todd, The Stranger, pp. 383, 398, 403, 413; DJG interview with Carole Travis; Sheila Jager e-mail to DJG, 20 August 2013.
39. John F. Harris and Todd S. Purdum, “What’s Wrong with President Obama?,” Politico, 18 September 2013; Obama’s 30 September 2013 interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep; Leonard Downie Jr., “In Obama’s War on Leaks, Reporters Fight Back,” WP, 6 October 2013; Wolffe, The Message, pp. 31, 206–7; Nicholas Confessore, “How He Won,” NYTBR, 20 October 2013; Scott Wilson, “Controversies Show How Obama’s Inattention to Detail May Hurt His Presidential Legacy,” WP, 30 October 2013; Amy Chozick, “In Clinton Fund-Raising, Expect a Full Embrace,” NYT, 22 October 2013; Halperin and Heilemann, Double Down, pp. 30, 47; Fouad Ajami, “When the Obama Magic Died,” WSJ, 15 November 2013; Todd, The Stranger, 451–52, 466; Gideon Rose, “What Obama Gets Right,” Foreign Affairs, September–October 2015, pp. 2–12; Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Obama Doctrine,” Atlantic, April 2016, pp. 70–90; Grunwald, “The Selling of Obama,” Politico Magazine, May–June 2016; William A. Galston, “Obama’s Toothless Foreign Policy,” WSJ, 7 September 2016.
40. George E. Vaillant, Adaptation to Life (Little, Brown, 1977), p. 29; Dan P. McAdams, “What Psychobiographers Might Learn from Personality Psychology,” in William T. Schultz, ed., Handbook of Psychobiography (Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 64–83; Steven Berglas, “Why Does Barack Keep Making Weird Jokes About Michelle?,” Politico, 19 November 2013; the Obamas on 20/20, ABC, 29 November 2013; Todd S. Purdum, “The Lonely Guy,” Vanity Fair, December 2013; Obama’s 20 December 2013 interview with Steve Harvey; Jonathan Van Meter, “Michelle Obama: A Candid Conversation,” Vogue, December 2016 (“living in the White House is isolating . . . you slowly start losing touch”); DJG interviews with Matt Piers, Katrina Emmons Mulligan, Eugene Morris, Jason Scott, Dan Shomon, Andrew Boron, and John Eason.
41. Todd, The Stranger, p. 466; Elizabeth Titus and John F. Harris, “Management Experts Knock Obama,” Politico, 31 December 2013; Frank Bruni, “The Obama-Bush Nexus,” NYT, 21 January 2014; Michael Gerson, “Our Complex President,” WP, 24 January 2014; David Remnick, “Going the Distance,” TNY, 27 January 2014; Michael Hirsh, “Kerry Unbound,” and Charlie Cook, “Moving Right Along,” NJ, 1 February 2014; Gary Younge, “What the Hell Is Barack Obama’s Presidency For?,” Guardian, 23 February 2014; Fred Hiatt, “Is There Change President Obama Can Believe In?,” WP, 23 February 2014; Fred Kaplan, “The Realist,” Politico Magazine, 27 February 2014; Hirsh and James Oliphant, “Obama Will Never End the War on Terror,” NJ, 27 February 2014; Adolph Reed Jr., “Nothing Left,” Harper’s, March 2014; Jonathan Chait, “The Color of His Presidency,” NYM, 6 April 2014; Peter Baker, “For Obama Presidency, Lyndon Johnson Looms Large,” NYT, 9 April 2014; Dan Balz, “Obama and LBJ,” WP, 13 April 2014; Jason Horowitz, “Obama Effect Inspiring Few to Seek Office,” NYT, 14 April 2014; Leon Wieseltier, “The Inconvenience of History,” TNR, 23 April 2014; Carrie Budoff Brown and Jennifer Epstein, “The Obama Paradox,” Politico, 1 June 2014.
42. Zeituni Onyango e-mail to DJG, 6 December 2013; Katharine Q. Seelye, “Zeituni Onyango, Obama’s Aunt from Kenya, Dies at 61,” NYT, 8 April 2014; Jason Horowitz, “Amid Politics, Obama Drifted Away from Kin,” NYT, 23 April 2014; Michael D. Shear, “The Rise of the Drone Master,” NYT, 30 April 2014; Maureen Dowd, “Is Barry Whiffing?,” NYT, 30 April 2014; Todd S. Purdum, “Barack Obama Laughs At but Not With,” Politico, 2 May 2014; “President Obama and the World,” NYT, 4 May 2014; Mike Dorning, “Obamas Diverge with Bidens on Mortgage Refinancing,” Bloomberg, 15 May 2014; Kathleen Parker, “VA Scandal Shows Obama Is Out of the Loop—Again,” WP, 24 May 2014; Obama’s 28 May 2014 interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep; Mark Landler, “In Obama’s Speeches, a Shifting Tone on Terror,” NYT, 1 June 2014; Albert R. Hunt, “Obama’s Destructive War on the Media,” Bloomberg, 8 June 2014; Ron Fournier, “‘I’ve Had Enough’: When Democrats Quit on Obama,” NJ, 9 June 2014; Rosa Brooks, “Sorry, Hillary: I Should Have Voted for You,” Foreign Policy, 11 June 2014; Michael Grunwald, “The Selling of Obama,” Politico Magazine, May–June 2016; Mark Landler, Alter Egos (Random House, 2016), pp. xii–xiv.
43. Charles Lipson, “Barack Obama’s Presidency Is Spiraling Downward,” CT, 17 June 2014; Ruth Marcus, “A Cautious Obama Misreads History,” WP, 18 June 2014; Randall Kennedy, “Did Obama Fail Black America?,” Politico, 27 June 2014; Steve Chapman “Obama: Wrong on Cellphone Searches and More,” CT, 29 June 2014; Peggy Noonan, “The Daydream and the Nightmare,” WSJ, 5 July 2014; Matt Lewis, “The Obama Years: The Trailers Were Great, the Movie Was Horrible,” Telegraph, 5 July 2014; Michael Hirsh, “Our Lonely First Duffer,” Politico, 7 August 2014; Maureen Dowd, “Where’s the Justice at Justice?,” WP, 17 August 2004; Michael Kazin, “Obama’s Biggest Problem: Political ADD,” TNR, 19 August 2014; Carl Hulse et al., “Obama Is Seen as Frustrating His Own Party,” NYT, 19 August 2014; Thomas Frank, “Cornel West,” Salon, 24 August 2014; Ruth Marcus, “A Threat Puts Obama’s Legacy in Question,” WP, 24 August 2014.
44. Sheila Jager e-mails to DJG, 1 September and 10 and 14 November, 2014; David A. Graham, “The Wrong Side of ‘the Right Side of History,’” Atlantic, 21 December 2015.
45. Obama on Meet the Press, NBC, 7 September 2014; Obama on 60 Minutes, CBS, 26 September 2014; Leon Panetta, Worthy Fights (Penguin, 2014); Susan Page, “Panetta: ‘30-Year War,’” USAT, 6 October 2014; Ron Fournier, “What a Real White House Shake-Up Looks Like,” NJ, 23 October 2014; Paul Kane, “Midterm Disaster Rips Apart Awkward Ties Between Obama and Senate Democrats,” WP, 6 November 2014; Carol Felsenthal, “Fire Valerie Jarrett,” Politico, 7 November 2014; Todd, The Stranger, p. 273; Robert Draper, “The Enigma of Barack Obama,” WSJ, 8 November 2014; Noam Scheiber, “The Obama Whisperer,” TNR, 9 November 2014.
46. Obama on Face the Nation, CBS, 9 November 2014; David J. Rothkopf, National Insecurity, pp. 85, 204, 207, 318, 324, 358; Jeffrey Goldberg, “A Withering Critique of Obama’s National Security Council,” Atlantic, 12 November 2014; Dana Milbank, “Obama Is Turning into George W. Bush,” WP, 24 November 2014.
47. Glenn Greenwald, “Talking to James Risen About Pay Any Price,” The Intercept, 25 November 2014; Chris Ariens, “Ann Compton,” MediaBistro.com, 8 December 2014; Josh Gerstein, “President Obama’s Mixed Signals,” Politico, 10 December 2014; Mark Udall, CRec, 10 December 2014, pp. S6474–78; Lindsay Moran, “The CIA Book I Wish I’d Written,” Politico, 14 December 2014; Peter Baker and Mark Mazzetti, “Brennan Draws on Bond with Obama in Backing CIA,” NYT, 15 December 2014; Obama’s 16 December 2014 interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep; Mazzetti, “After Scrutiny, CIA Mandate Is Untouched,” NYT, 27 December 2014; Hadas Gold, “Risen,” Politico, 17 February 2015; James Risen, “If Donald Trump Targets Journalists, Thank Obama,” NYT, 30 December 2016.
48. Elizabeth Drew, “The Unmaking of the President,” ProjectSyndicate.org, 6 January 2015; Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “At 78, McCain Savors a Dream Job in the Senate,” NYT, 14 January 2015; Kenneth Roth, “Obama & Counterterror: The Ignored Record,” NYRB, 5 February 2015; Ben Smith, “Full Transc
ript of Buzzfeed News’ Interview with President Barack Obama,” Buzzfeed.com, 10 February 2015; “A True Believer Meets Reality,” Economist, 14 February 2015; Amy Chozick, “When He Walks Out of That Building, I Don’t Think He’s Gonna Look Back,” NYT Magazine, 15 February 2015; Dana Milbank, “Is This the End of the White House’s Insufferable Insularity?,” WP, 29 March 2015; Alan J. Kuperman, “Obama’s Libya Debacle,” Foreign Affairs, March–April 2015; Obama’s 6 April 2015 interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep; “The Truth About Covering Obama,” Politico, 22 April 2015; Milbank, “Obama’s Trade Deal,” WP, 11 May 2015; Jack Shafer, “The Rise and Fall of the Obama-Media Romance,” and Nick Gass, “Schieffer on Obama,” Politico, 1 June 2015.
49. Genevieve Cook e-mails to DJG, 28 September 2012 and 26 and 28 February 2015; Obama on WTF with Marc Maron podcast, 18 June 2015; Obama’s 24 July 2015 interview with the BBC’s Jon Sopel; Obama, remarks to the people of Africa, 28 July 2015; Obama’s 6 August 2015 interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep; Gardiner Harris, “After 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Where To?,” NYT, 12 October 2015; Obama’s 17 November 2015 interview with GQ’s Bill Simmons; Mark Landler, “Obama Revives the Republican Glory Years of Sunnylands Estate,” NYT, 8 February 2016. Note must be taken of Mohamed Moustafa, “The Other Face of Obama!,” YouTube, 7 May 2012, Moustafa, “Obama and His Ex-Girlfriend’s Husband,” YouTube, 10 May 2012, and two subsequent YouTube postings on 11 June and 28 July 2012, all offered up by Genevieve’s once-abusive former spouse.
50. Jeff Greenfield, “Democratic Blues,” Politico, 20 August 2015; Sheryl Gay Stolberg et al., “In Obama Era, GOP Bolsters Grip in the States,” NYT, 13 November 2015; Gerald F. Seib, “The President Remains a Paradox,” WSJ, 12 January 2016; Juan Williams, “The Carolina Pander for Black Votes,” WSJ, 13–14 February 2016; Marilynne Robinson, “A Conversation in Iowa,” NYRB, 5 and 19 November 2015 (14 September 2015); Obama’s 6 October 2015 interview with CBS’ Steve Kroft; Obama’s 12 November 2015 interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos; Obama’s 17 November 2015 GQ Interview with Bill Simmons; Obama’s 20 March 2015 interview with the Huffington Post’s Sam Stein; Robert Pear, “Head of Obama’s Health Care Rollout to Lobby for Insurers,” NYT, 16 July 2015; Lucia Graves, “Marilyn Tavenner,” NJ, 24 October 2015, pp. 24–25; Pear, “Many Say High Deductibles Make Their Health Care Insurance All but Useless,” NYT, 15 November 2015; Liz Hamel et al., “The Burden of Medical Debt,” Kaiser Family Foundation, December 2015; Abby Goodnough, “Many See I.R.S. Fines as More Affordable Than Insurance,” NYT, 3 January 2016; Margot Sanger-Katz, “Lost Jobs, Houses, Savings: Even Insured Often Face Crushing Medical Debt,” NYT, 5 January 2016; Josh Gerstein, “How Obama Failed to Shut Washington’s Revolving Door,” and Michael Grunwald, “The Nation He Built,” Politico Magazine, January–February 2016; Sarah Kliff, “Is Obamacare Failing?,” Vox, 24 August 2016; Amy Goldstein, “In North Carolina, ACA Insurer Defections Leave Little Choice for Many Consumers,” WP, 14 October 2016; Scott Rasmussen, “GOP Hangs On to Historic Gains in State Legislatures,” Rasmussen Media Group, 8 December 2016; Dan Balz, “Democrats Search for a Path Back into Rural America’s Good Graces,” WP, 10 December 2016.
51. Karen DeYoung, “How the Obama White House Runs Foreign Policy,” WP, 5 August 2015; David Ignatius, “Russia and ‘The Facts on the Ground’ in Syria,” WP, 2 October 2015; Jackson Diehl, “Obama’s Olive Branches are Lifelines for Authoritarian Regimes,” WP, 9 November 2015; Richard Cohen, “The President Who Lost His Voice,” WP, 1 December 2015; Robert M. Gates, “The Kind of President We Need,” WP, 4 December 2015; Obama’s 21 December 2015 interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep; Michael Crowley, “‘We Caved,’” Politico Magazine, January–February 2016; Obama’s 22 January 2016 interview with Politico’s Glenn Thrush; Diehl, “Can Obama Let Go of His Wished-For Legacy?,” WP, 8 February 2016; Joseph I. Lieberman, “The Absence of U.S. Leadership,” WP, 25 February 2016; “Mr. Putin Continues to Call the Shots in Syria,” WP, 26 February 2016; “Grozny Rules in Aleppo,” Economist, 1 October 2016, pp. 12–13 (“the agony of Syria is the biggest moral stain on Barack Obama’s presidency” and “his greatest geopolitical failure”); Greg Jaffe, “The Problem with Obama’s Account of the Syrian Red-Line Incident,” WP, 4 October 2016; Nicholas Kristof, “The Blot on Obama’s Legacy,” NYT, 6 October 2016 (Syria is “a huge blot on his legacy”); Jaffe, “Washington’s Foreign Policy Elite Breaks with Obama over Syrian Bloodshed,” WP, 20 October 2016.
52. Ray LaHood, Seeking Bipartisanship (Cambria Press, 2015), pp. 209, 215, 232; Peter Baker, “Promised Bipartisanship, Obama Adviser Found Disappointment,” NYT, 12 November 2015; Darren Samuelson, “Obama’s Vanishing Administration,” Politico, 5 January 2016; Matt Latimer, “True-Blue Obama,” Politico, 6 January 2016; Jeff Jacoby, “Obama Regrets Polarized Rancor. He Should,” BG, 24 January 2016; David Brooks, “I Miss Barack Obama,” NYT, 9 February 2016; Obama, address to the Illinois General Assembly, Springfield, 10 February 2016; Christi Parsons’s interview with Obama, Kirk Dillard, Denny Jacobs, and Larry Walsh, Springfield, 10 February 2016; Mark Landler, “Obama Revisits Springfield, and His Vow to Bridge a Partisan Divide,” NYT, 11 February 2016; Mike Riopell, “President Obama Greets Old Friends During Springfield Visit,” CDH, 11 February 2016; Tamara Coffman Wittes, “The Slipperiest Slope of Them All,” Atlantic, 12 March 2016; Jackson Diehl, “The Costs of Obama’s Syrian Policy Are Apparent to Everyone but Him,” WP, 21 March 2016; Fred Hiatt, “U.S. Leadership Matters,” WP, 28 March 2016; Obama, remarks at the Toner Prize ceremony, Washington, DC, 28 March 2016; David Luban, “Has Obama Upheld the Law?,” NYRB, 21 April 2016; William A. Galston, “How Obama’s Economy Spawned Trump,” WSJ, 4 May 2016; Dan Corey, “President Obama Sits Down with the Daily Targum,” Daily Targum, 12 May 2016; Margaret Sullivan, “Obama Promised Transparency,” WP, 24 May 2016; Jeffrey Goldberg, “What Obama Actually Thinks About Radical Islam,” Atlantic, 15 June 2016; “Obama Retreats from Putin in Syria—Again,” WP, 3 July 2016; Michael D. Shear, “A Classified Matter at the White House,” NYT, 8 August 2016; Nicholas Kristof, “Obama’s Worst Mistake,” NYT, 11 August 2016; David Cole, “The Drone Presidency,” NYRB, 18 August 2016 (observing that “the only person to win the Nobel Peace Prize based on wishful thinking” then “pioneered a dramatically dangerous and ethically dubious form of warfare”); Charles Lane, “Obama Criticizes Past Presidents’ Foreign Policies,” WP, 15 September 2016; Jackson Diehl, “Putin’s Lesson for Obama in Syria,” WP, 19 September 2016; “Barack Obama and Doris Kearns Goodwin: The Ultimate Exit Interview,” Vanity Fair, 21 September 2016; Jonathan Chait, “Five Days That Shaped a Presidency,” NYM, 3 October 2016; Vanessa K. De Luca et al., “The Obama Legacy,” Essence, October 2016, pp. 100–111; Obama, “The Way Ahead,” Economist, 8 October 2016, pp. 22–24; Obama, “Now Is the Greatest Time to Be Alive,” Wired, November 2016; Josh Kraushaar, “How Obama Inadvertently Set the Stage for Trump’s Presidency,” National Journal, 9 November 2016; Jann S. Wenner, “The Day After,” Rolling Stone, 29 November 2016; Obama on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Comedy Central, 12 December 2016; Ta-Nehesi Coates, “My President Was Black,” The Atlantic, January–February 2017; William A. Darity Jr., “How Barack Obama Failed Black Americans,” The Atlantic, 22 December 2016; Obama on David Axelrod’s The Axe Files, CNN.com, 26 December 2016; Obama, “The President’s Role in Advancing Criminal Justice Reform,” HLR 130 (January 2017): 811–66; Obama, “Repealing the ACA Without a Replacement: The Risks to American Healthcare,” NEJM, 6 January 2017, pp. 1–3; Obama on ABC’s This Week, 8 January 2017; Obama, “The Irreversible Momentum of Clean Energy,” Science, 9 January 2017, pp. 1–4; Obama, “Farewell Address,” Chicago, 10 January 2017; Obama on Dateline NBC, 13 January 2017; Obama on CBS’s 60 Minutes, 15 January 2017; Obama’s 13 January 2017 interview with Michiko Kakutani, NYT, 16 January 2017; Norman Mailer, “Superman Comes to the Supermarket,” Esquire, November 1960; Wolffe in Maureen Dowd, “The Ungrateful President,” NYT, 7 August 2012;
DJG interview with Cindi Canary; Obama, DFMF, pp. 79, 82.
INDEX
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25% Solution, The (Miller), 887–88
47th Street Poems (Davis), 69
60 Minutes (CBS), 1051, 1052, 1070
9/11. See September 11 attacks
Abbas, Mahmoud, 982
Abbruzzese, Jared, 968
Abercrombie, Neil, 46, 51, 54, 57, 79, 81, 709, 861, 963
Abiero, Adede, 77
ABLE (Alliance of Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs), 591, 723, 769, 1019
abortion, 379, 380, 381, 439
bills limiting, 754, 755, 806, 891
late-term, 754, 903, 1048
Medicaid funding of, 561, 714
Obama position on, 562, 597, 600, 607, 633, 637, 730, 748, 755, 807, 818, 826, 846, 881, 891, 902–3, 946, 949, 956, 987, 994, 1015, 1048
opponents, 353, 594, 636, 902–3, 945, 946, 947, 1015, 1044
partial-birth, 597, 600
Supreme Court cases, 615, 633
Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (Tribe), 394, 456
Aboulafia, Mitchell, 532
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (Springfield), 720, 970
Abrams, Andrew, 673
Abrams, Floyd, 399, 444
Abramsky, Sasha, 218
Abunimah, Ali, 691–92, 875
Abyssinian Baptist Church (NY), 285, 468
Ackerman, Martha, 547
Ackerman, Sam, 547
ACORN, 220, 493, 506, 650, 664
and Altgeld Gardens, 34, 35
Rising Star Page 245