7.2 /10 1 Votes
Language English Pages 168 ISBN 9781844674497 Country United Kingdom | 3.6/5 Goodreads Publication date October 2010 Originally published October 2010 Page count 168 Publisher Verso Books | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Subject American politics, Barack Obama, American imperialism Media type Print (hardcover and paperback) Similar Works by Tariq Ali, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Insight with tariq ali the obama syndrome
The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad is a 2010 book by British-Pakistani writer, journalist, political activist and historian Tariq Ali.
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Synopsis
The book, described as a "A merciless dissection of Obama’s overseas escalation and domestic retreat" is strongly critical of the Presidency of Barack Obama. Ali argues little has changed since George W. Bush left office, with appeasement of Israel continuing, genuine domestic reform abandoned, torture and drone strikes continuing and Wall Street being bailed out without reform.
Reception
In The Guardian Stryker Maguire, editor of LSE Review wrote "I was prepared to dislike Ali's The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad more than I did in the end" and "Stripped of its Gore Vidal-school tendentiousness, the book has some reasonable things to say about the Obama presidency" while in the New York Journal of Books the reviewer wrote "Ali’s progressive stance confronts the illusions sold to voters in 2008 by a compliant media and capitalist firms".