Question

What are hopes and dreams of Obama for the United States?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

To understand the appeal of Barack Obama it is necessary to consider his symbolic significance as much as the language through which he persuades. This is because he is the living embodiment of the policies he advocates as much as he provides their expressive medium. As a mixed race African American he symbolises the hopes of those who previously struggled to realise the goals of that ‘young preacher from Georgia’ he referred to when accepting the nomination as Democratic Party candidate. As the child of a single mother, supported by her parents, he has also come to embody how vulnerability arising from family break-up can be overcome by education and perseverance, and how personal hardship can be transformed into a source of strength in political self-representation. As a grass-roots political campaigner who engaged with those in Chicago experiencing socio-economic deprivation, he symbolised the underlying Christian values of self-sacrifice and empathy. It is this combination of who he is with who he has become that enabled his version of the American Dream to sound as if he was telling the right story. The American Dream was a credible narrative for Obama because his life symbolised it; his life story evoked a response and when myth becomes reality the gods have truly descended to earth.

Answer 2

Hopes and dreams is a book that Show the roots of the view of Barack Obama on American politics

• The book shows the roots of Barack Obama's view of American politics and how his world view has been primarily influenced by understanding of American history and the ideology of pragmatism.
• The author views Obama as a particularly unfortunate victim of the circumstances that brought him the presidency.
• The presidency was at a time when the United States was on the verge of the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression.
• Not only does the book deal with the new U.S. president, but also because it discusses the history of modern political theory and attempts to create clear ties between it and Obama's political success.