Bibliography of Barack Obama explained

This bibliography of Barack Obama is a list of written and published works, both books and films, about Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.

Scholarly books and articles

• Book: Abramsky . Sasha . Inside Obama's Brain . 1 December 2009 . Penguin . 978-1-101-15953-8 . en.
• Book: Alter, Jonathan B. . . Simon & Schuster . New York . 2010 . 978-1-4391-0119-3 . Jonathan Alter.
• Book: Andersen, Christopher P. . . William Morrow . New York . 2009 . 978-0-06-177196-5 . Christopher Andersen.
• Book: Anonymous . . Simon & Schuster . New York . 2011 . 978-1-4516-2596-7.
• Book: Baker. Peter. Obama: The Call of History. 2017. New York Times/Callaway. 978-0935112900. Peter Baker (author).
• Book: Bolton, John R. . Geller, Pamela A. . Spencer, Robert C. . The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America . Threshold Editions . 2010 . 978-1-4391-8930-6 . John R. Bolton. Pamela Geller . Robert Spencer (author).
• Book: John Bolton

. Bolton . John R. . John Bolton. How Barack Obama Is Endangering Our National Sovereignty . February 2011 . 978-1-4587-3046-6 . en.

• Book: Brewer . Dirk . Jocelyn . J. Michael . President Obama's Broken Promises: Race, Religion & Gay Rights . 6 January 2010 . Independently Published . 978-1-7181-9690-2 . en.
• Book: Cashill . Jack . Jack Cashill. "You Lie!": The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama . 7 October 2014 . Harper Collins . 978-0-06-234752-7 . en.
• Book: Carney . Timothy P. . Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses . 30 November 2009 . Simon & Schuster . 978-1-59698-134-8 . en.
• Book: Chait. Jonathan. Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail. 2017. Custom House. 978-0062426970. Chait.
• Book: Chollet, Derek . The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America's Role in the World . Public Affairs . New York . 2016 . 978-1610396608 . Derek Chollet.
• Congressional Quarterly. Congress and the Nation: Volume 13: 2009-2012 (CQ Press, 2013) online, 1075 pp of highly detailed coverage of all major themes
  • Congressional Quarterly. Congress and the Nation: Volume 14: 2012-2016 (CQ Press, 2017)
• Conley, Richard S., and Kevin Baron. "Obama’s ‘Hidden-Hand’ Presidency: Myth, Metaphor, or Misrepresentation?." White House Studies 13 (2015): 129-57.
• Book: Clair . Jeffrey St . Frank . Joshua . Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion . 15 May 2012 . AK Press . 978-1-84935-111-9 . en.
• Book: Cobb . Jelani . The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress . 13 October 2020 . Bloomsbury Publishing USA . 978-1-63557-743-3 . en.
• Book: Corsi, Jerome R. . . Threshold Editions/Simon & Schuster . New York . 2008 . 978-1-4165-9806-0 . Jerome Corsi.
• Book: Crotty . William . The Obama Presidency: Promise and Performance . Lexington Books . 2012 . 978-0739172346. none.
• Book: D'Antonio. Michael. A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama. 2017. Thomas Dunne Books. 978-1250081391. ^[1]
• Book: D'Souza . Dinesh . Dinesh D'Souza. The Roots of Obama's Rage . 4 October 2011 . Regnery Publishing . 978-1-59698-276-5 . en.
• Book: D'Souza . Dinesh . Dinesh D'Souza. Obama's America: Unmaking the American Dream . July 2014 . Simon & Schuster . 978-1-4767-7335-3 . en.
• Book: Delingpole . James . James Delingpole. Welcome to Obamaland: I Have Seen Your Future and It Doesn't Work . 9 February 2009 . Simon & Schuster . 978-1-59698-098-3 . en.
• Book: Dorrien . Gary . The Obama Question: A Progressive Perspective . 16 February 2012 . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers . 978-1-4422-1539-9 . en.
• Book: Freddoso, David . . Regnery Publishing . Washington, D.C. . 2008 . 978-1-59698-566-7 . David Freddoso.
• Book: Freddoso, David . Gangster Government: Barack Obama and the New Washington Thugocracy . Regnery Publishing . 2011 . 9781596986480 . registration .
• Book: Freddoso . David . Spin Masters: How the Media Ignored the Real News and Helped Reelect Barack Obama . 28 January 2013 . Regnery Publishing . 978-1-62157-080-6 . en.
• Book: Frazier . Mondo . The Secret Life of Barack Hussein Obama . 25 October 2011 . Simon & Schuster . 978-1-4516-3320-7 . en.
• Gaman-Golutvina, Oxana. "Political elites in the USA under George W. Bush and Barack Obama: Structure and international politics." Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung 43.4 (2018): 141-163. online
• Garrow, David, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (May 2017)
• Book: Gillespie . Andra . Race and the Obama Administration: Substance, symbols, and hope . 14 January 2019 . Manchester University Press . 978-1-5261-0503-5 . en.
• Book: Grunwald, Michael . . Simon & Schuster . New York . 2012 . 978-1-4516-4232-2 . Michael Grunwald.
• Book: Halperin, Mark S. . Heilemann, John . . Harper . New York . 2010 . 978-0-06-196620-0 . Mark Halperin . John Heilemann.
• Book: Halperin, Mark S. . Heilemann, John . . Harper . New York . 2012 . 978-1594204401.
• Book: Hannity, Sean . . Harper Paperbacks . 2010 . 978-0-06-200305-8 . Sean Hannity.
• Book: Healy . Gene . False Idol: Barack Obama and the Continuing Cult of the Presidency . 17 October 2012 . Cato Institute . 978-0-932790-41-5 . en.
• Book: Hewitt . Hugh . The Brief Against Obama: The Rise, Fall & Epic Fail of the Hope & Change Presidency . 26 June 2012 . Center Street . 978-1-4555-1629-2 . en.
• Book: Hodge . Roger D. . Roger Hodge. The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism . 5 October 2010 . Harper Collins . 978-0-06-202496-1 . en.
• Book: Ingraham, Laura . . Threshold Editions . 2010 . 978-1-4391-9751-6 . Laura Ingraham.
• Book: Jacobs, Sally H. . . PublicAffairs . New York . 2011 . 978-1-58648-793-5.
• Book: Kaufman . Burton I. . Barack Obama: Conservative, Pragmatist, Progressive . 15 March 2022 . Cornell University Press . 978-1-5017-6199-7 . en.
• Book: Klein . Edward . The Amateur: Barrack Obama in the White House . 3 June 2013 . Simon & Schuster . 978-1-62157-165-0 . en.
• Book: Lee, T. S. . . Dasan Productions . 2009 . 978-0-9819542-0-2 . ko.
• Book: Limbaugh, David . Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama . Regnery Publishing, Inc. . Washington, D.C. . 2010 . 978-1-59698-624-4 . David Limbaugh .
• Book: Limbaugh, David . The Great Destroyer . Regnery Publishing, Inc. . Washington, D.C. . 2012 . 978-1-59698-777-7 . registration .
• Book: Litt . David . David Litt. Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years (A Speechwriter's Memoir) . 19 September 2017 . HarperCollins . 978-0-06-256846-5 . en.
• 10.1353/aq.2011.0012 . To "Choose Our Better History": Assessing the Obama Presidency in Real Time . American Quarterly . 63 . 179–189 . 2011 . McElya . Micki . 145168784 . none.
• Maass, Matthias. The World Views of the Obama Era (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
• Book: McGann, Eileen . Morris, Dick . . Harper . New York . 2009 . 978-0-06-177104-0 . Dick Morris.
• Book: Malkin, Michelle . . Regnery Publishing . Washington, D.C. . 2009 . 978-1-59698-109-6 . Michelle Malkin.
• Book: Jason Mattera . . Threshold Editions . 2010 . 978-1-4391-7207-0 . Mattera, Jason.
• Book: Maraniss, David . . Simon & Schuster . New York . 2012 . 978-1-4391-6040-4 . David Maraniss.
• Book: David Mendell . . Amistad/HarperCollinsPublishers . New York . 2007 . 978-0-06-085820-9 . Mendell, David.
• Book: Michener . Mitch . Barack Obama: Hope Destroyed . July 2011 . Tate Publishing . 978-1-61777-320-4 . en.
• Book: Newberry . Tommy . The War On Success: How the Obama Agenda Is Shattering the American Dream . 12 January 2010 . Simon & Schuster . 978-1-59698-136-2 . en.
• Book: Obama, Barack . etal . Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise . Three Rivers Press . New York . 2008 . 978-0-307-46045-5 . Barack Obama . ^[2]
• Book: Obenshain . Kate . Kate Obenshain. Divider-in-Chief: The Fraud of Hope and Change . 4 September 2012 . Simon & Schuster . 978-1-62157-016-5 . en.
• Book: Patterson . Gary R. . A President's Dithering False Bravado: Obama Caved in Accepting Putin's Rigged Syrian Weapons Deal . 14 July 2020 . Outskirts Press, Incorporated . 978-1-9772-2144-5 . en.
• Book: Patterson . Robert . Conduct Unbecoming: How Barack Obama is Destroying The Military and Endangering Our Security . 31 August 2010 . Simon and Schuster . 978-1-59698-161-4 . en.
• Book: Press . Bill . The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President---and Who Is Behind Them . 31 January 2012 . Macmillan . 978-1-4299-4125-9 . en.
• Book: Presta, John . . The Elevator Group . Paoli, Pennsylvania . 2010 . 978-0-375-70230-3 . John Presta.
• Book: 978-1538111512 . Historical Dictionary of the Barack Obama Administration . Pomante (Ii) . Michael J. . Schraufnagel . Scot . 2018 . none.
• Book: Price . Joann F. . Barack Obama: The Voice of an American Leader . 21 November 2008 . Bloomsbury Publishing USA . 978-0-313-36237-8 . en.
• Book: Rall . Ted . The Book of Obama: From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt . 19 June 2012 . Seven Stories Press . 978-1-60980-451-0 . en.
• Book: Remnick, David . . Vintage . London . 2011 . 978-0-981-97192-6 . David Remnick.
• Rudalevige . Andrew . 2012 . 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2012.00910.x . 'A Majority Is the Best Repartee': Barack Obama and Congress, 2009-2012 . Social Science Quarterly . 93 . 5 . 1272–1294 . none.
• Rudalevige . Andrew . 2016 . 10.1111/psq.12323 . The Contemporary Presidency: The Obama Administrative Presidency: Some Late-Term Patterns . Presidential Studies Quarterly . 46 . 4 . 868–890 . none.
• Book: Savage, Charlie . 2015 . Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency . New York . Little, Brown and Company . 9780316286572 . 907941518. Ebook edition: Power Wars: The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy.
• Book: Scott, Janny . . Riverhead Hardcover . 2011 . 978-1-59448-797-2.
• Book: Schneiderhan . Erik . The Size of Others' Burdens: Barack Obama, Jane Addams, and the Politics of Helping Others . 27 May 2015 . Stanford University Press . 978-0-8047-9495-4 . en.
• Book: Shapiro . Ben . The People Vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against the Obama Administration . 28 April 2015 . Simon & Schuster . 978-1-4767-6515-0 . en.
• Skocpol . Theda . Jacobs . Lawrence R. . 2012 . 10.1002/j.1538-165X.2012.tb00718.x . Accomplished and Embattled: Understanding Obama's Presidency . Political Science Quarterly . 127 . 1–24 . none .
• Book: von Marschall, Christoph . . Barack Obama – The black Kennedy . Orell Fuessli Verlag . 2007 . 978-3-280-06108-4 . de . Christoph von Marschall.
• White, John Kenneth (2009). Barack Obama's America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era. University of Michigan Press. .
• Book: Wise, Tim . . City Lights Books . San Francisco . 2009 . 978-0-87286-500-6 . Tim Wise.
• Book: Wolffe, Richard . Renegade: The Making of a President . Three Rivers Press . New York . 2009 . 978-0-307-46313-5. Richard Wolffe. ^[3]
• Book: Wolffe, Richard . Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House . 2010 . . 978-0-307-71741-2 .
• Book: Wolffe, Richard . The Message: The Reselling of President Obama . 2013 . Twelve . 978-1455581566 . registration .
• Book: Woodward, Bob . . Simon & Schuster . New York . 2010 . 978-1-4391-7249-0 . Bob Woodward.
• Book: 978-0691160283 . The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment . Zelizer . Julian E. . . 2018 . none.

Autobiographies

• Book: . Broadway . Obama, Barack . 2004 . New York . 1400082773.
• Book: . Vintage . Obama, Barack . Barack Obama . 2008 . New York . 978-0307455871. ^[4]
• Book: A Promised Land. Obama, Barack. Crown. November 17, 2020. New York. 978-1-5247-6316-9.

Rhetoric

See main article: Speeches of Barack Obama.

• Baysha, Olga. "Synecdoche that kills: How Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin constructed different Ukraines for different ends." International Communication Gazette 80.3 (2018): 230-249.
• Belisle, Jordan, et al. "Feasibility of contextual behavioral speech analyses of US presidents: Inaugural addresses of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, 1993–2017." Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science 10 (2018): 14-18.
• Bostdorff, Denise M. "Obama, Trump, and reflections on the rhetoric of political change." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 20.4 (2017): 695-706. online
• Book: Ferrara . Mark S. . Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope . 16 July 2013 . McFarland . 978-0-7864-6793-8 . en.
• Gleason, Timothy R., and Sara S. Hansen. "Image control: The visual rhetoric of President Obama." Howard Journal of Communications 28.1 (2017): 55-71.
• Hill, Theon E. "Sanitizing the struggle: Barack Obama, Selma, and civil rights memory." Communication Quarterly 65.3 (2017): 354-376.
• Holliday, N. "'My Presiden(t) and Firs(t) Lady Were Black': Style, Context, and Coronal Stop Deletion in the Speech of Barack and Michelle Obama." American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage (2017) 92(4), 459-486, “My Presiden(t) and Firs(t) Lady Were Black”:
• Holliday, Nicole, Jason Bishop, and Grace Kuo. "Prosody and political style: The case of Barack Obama and the L+ H* Pitch accent." Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020. online
• Iversen, Stefan, and Henrik Skov Nielsen. "Invention as intervention in the rhetoric of Barack Obama." Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies 9.1-2 (2017): 121-142.
• Kurtz, Jeffrey B. "'To Have Your Experience Denied... it Hurts': Barack Obama, James Baldwin, and the Politics of Black Anger." Howard Journal of Communications 28.1 (2017): 93-106.
• Perry, Samuel. "Barack Obama, civil mourning, and prudence in presidential rhetoric." Howard Journal of Communications 28.2 (2017): 160-173
• St. Onge, Jeffrey. "Neoliberalism as common sense in Barack Obama’s health care rhetoric." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 47.4 (2017): 295-312.
• Widiatmika, Putu Wahyu, I. Made Budiarsa, and I. Gde Sadia. "Rhetorical Schemes in Barack Obama’s Winning Speech." Humanis 24.4: 394-401. online

Editions of his speeches

• Dionne, E. J. Jr., and Joy-Ann Reid, eds. We are the change we seek: The speeches of Barack Obama (Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2017).
• Book: Inspire a Nation: Barack Obama's Most Electrifying Speeches of the 2008 Election . Publishing 180 . Easton, Jaclyn . 2008 . 978-0982100509.
• Book: Emerson, Ralph Waldo . The Inaugural Address, 2009: Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and the Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance . registration . Penguin Books . Obama, Barack . Lincoln, Abraham . 2009 . New York . 978-0-14-311642-4 . Ralph Waldo Emerson . Abraham Lincoln.
• Book: Olive, David I. . An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama: A Primer . registration . ECW Press . Toronto . 2008 . 978-1-55022-864-9.
• Book: Rogak, Lisa . Barack Obama in His Own Words . Running Press Miniature Editions . 2009 . 978-0-7624-3789-4 . Lisa Rogak.
• Book: Ruth, Greg . Our Enduring Spirit: President Barack Obama's First Words to America . Collins . London . 2009 . 978-0-06-183455-4.
• Book: Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean . . Bloomsbury USA . 2009 . 978-1-59691-667-8.

Films

• . Directed by Dinesh D'Souza & John Sullivan, Obama's America Foundation, 2012.
• America's Great Divide. Directed by Michael Kirk, Kirk Documentary Group, 2020.
• Barry. Directed by Vikram Gandhi, Black Bear Pictures & Cinetic Media, 2016.
• Change. Directed by Matteo Barzini, Feel Film, 2010.
• Dreams from My Real Father. Directed by Joel Gilbert, Highway 61 Entertainment, 2012.
• The Final Year. Directed by Greg Barker, HBO, 2017.
• I Want Your Money. Directed by Ray Griggs, RG Entertainment, 2010.
• Obama Anak Menteng. Directed by Damien Dematra & John de Rantau, Multivision Plus Pictures, 2010.
• Obama Mama. Directed by Vivian Norris, VNM Productions, 2014.
• Phas Gaye Re Obama. Directed by Subhash Kapoor, Revel Films, 2010.
• Southside with You. Directed by Richard Tanne, IM Global & Get Lifted Film, 2016.

Notes and References

1. News: The early drafts of the Obama legacy are in — and they're way over the top. Carlos. Lozada. January 13, 2017. The Washington Post. May 30, 2017. April 13, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170413031614/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2017/01/13/the-early-drafts-of-the-obama-legacy-are-in-and-theyre-way-over-the-top/. live.
2. News: Barack Obama policy book coming out Sept. 9 . August 11, 2008 . . April 9, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170409201134/http://www.today.com/id/26136726/ns/today-today_books/t/barack-obama-policy-book-coming-out-sept/ . April 9, 2017 . dead .
3. News: Renegade: The Making of a President by Richard Wolffe. Stryker. McGuire. August 22, 2009. The Guardian. April 9, 2017. April 9, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170409200633/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/aug/23/renegade-barack-obama-stryker-mcguire. live.
4. Web site: Barack Obama Books . https://web.archive.org/web/20080519223046/http://obama-zone.com/books/ . dead . May 19, 2008 . Obama Zone . November 28, 2012.