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"Among many virtues, this book offers a trenchant critique of the war rhetoric in the age of neoconservatism and neoliberalism, and their legacies in the Obama administration. Giroux bases his critique in the characteristically detailed research, historical understandig, and theoretical insight for which he is well knwon, and challenges the Obama administration--and all of us on whom genuine democracy depends--to take heed of no less than the proverbial reminder of what could be repeated from a failure to learn from the lessons of history."--Lewis R. Gordon, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institue for the Study of Race and Social Thought at Temple University and co-author of Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age (Paradigm 2009) --Book Jacket

"Giroux may be our best champion of youth and here he paints a stark picture of the complicity between corporate greed and governmental abandonment that continues to leave our children vulnerable. This may be Giroux's most accessible book, probably his most timely, and certainly his most powerful."--Richard Quantz, Miami University

"Giroux's book reminds readers that while Obama has already become a captive of the Presidency as an institution in American politics, his campaign rhetoric had offered an opportunity to revisit the vigor of radical ideas and democracy as an ideal in contemporary America. Focusing upon the linkages among youth, citizenship, education, and social change, Giroux offers a rich array of analysis and ideas that could help to transcend the politics of failure that has increasingly defined American life since the 1960s."--Cary Fraser, Penn State University

"Henry A. Giroux has been tracking the war on youth and decline of education and democracy throughout the Bush-Cheney era. In Politics After Hope, Giroux shows how problems of youth, race, education, militarism, and the decline of democracy are rooted in the previous era and provide serious challenges to the Obama administration. Grounding himself in Obama's politics of hope, Giroux sees early problems and failures concerning Obama's response to key issues and provides challenges for the Obama administration to match their rhetoric. A timely look at current political and pedagogical issues that should be of concern to educators and citizens alike."--Douglas Kellner, UCLA, author of Media Culture (1995) and Guys and Guns Amok: Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City Bombing to the Virginia Tech Massacre (2008)

The radical imagination series

12. Beyond bailouts : education after neoliberalism (coauthored with Susan Searls Giroux)

13. Educating Obama : a task for critical pedagogy

14. Beyond the audacity of hope : the promise of an educated citizenry

15. The Iranian uprisings and the challenge of the new media : rethinking the politics of representation

16. Obama's tortured democracy : the power of images and the politics of state secrecy

17. Obama and the promise of education

18. Obama's embrace of the corporate model of education (coauthored with Kenneth Saltman)

19. Against the militarized academy

20. Higher education in search of democracy?

21. Obama's postpartisan politics and the crisis of American education

22. Educating the rest of us : making democracy matter.

Introduction : Barack Obama and the fierce urgency of now

1. War talk, the death of the social, and disappearing children : a lesson for Obama

2. Hard lessons : neoliberalism, education, and the politics of disposability

3. Commodifying kids : the forgotten crisis

4. Disney, casino capitalism, and the stealing of childhood innocence

5. Ten years after Columbine : the deepening tragedy of youth

6. Child beauty pageants : a scene from the other America

7. Youth and the myth of a postracial society under Barack Obama

8. Diposable youth in a suspect society : a challenge for the Obama administration

9. Locked out and locked up : youth missing in action from Obama's stimulus plan

10. Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the new racism : getting beyond the politics of denial

11. Children of the recession : remembering Manchild in the promised land.

Children > Government policy > United States.

Education and state > United States.

Youth > Government policy > United States.

Youth > Political activity > United States.

United States > Politics and government > 2009-2017.

United States > Race relations > Political aspects.