Politics

Audacity by Jonathan Chait & We Are The Change We Seek edited by E.J. Dionne Jr and Joy-Ann Reid

by Varun Ghosh •

June-July 2017, no. 392

Audacity: How Barack Obama defied his critcs and created a legacy that will prevail by Jonathan Chait

Custom House, $32.99 pb, 262 pp, 9780062674425

We Are The Change We Seek: The speeches of Barack Obama edited by E.J. Dionne Jr and Joy-Ann Reid

Bloomsbury, $29.99 hb, 365 pp, 978163286946

Politics

Audacity by Jonathan Chait & We Are The Change We Seek edited by E.J. Dionne Jr and Joy-Ann Reid

by Varun Ghosh •

June-July 2017, no. 392

What is Barack Obama’s legacy? That deceptively simple question forms the subject of Jonathan Chait’s new book, Audacity. Across seven disparate chapters, the book ‘makes the case that Obama succeeded’ – that he ‘accomplished nearly everything he set out to do, and he set out to do an enormous amount’.

Varun Ghosh

Varun Ghosh is a lawyer from Perth. He received degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Western Australia and was a Commonwealth Scholar in Law at the University of Cambridge. He previously worked as a finance attorney in New York and as a consultant for the World Bank in Washington, DC.