Grading the 44th President A report card on Barack Obama's First Term as a Progressive Leader

Foreword
Leonard Pitts
Acknowledgments
Introduction Obama and the Promise of Change
Luigi Esposito and Laura L. Finley
Chapter 1 Progressivism and Economics: The Case of President Obama
Steven L. Arxer, Matthew Babcock, and Walter Borges
Chapter 2 Educating the "Education President"
Jung Min Choi, Tashina J. Vavuris, and Mariko Ono
Chapter 3 Negotiating Health: The Challenges of Progressive Healthcare Reform in the United States
Lisa Konczal
Chapter 4 Obama, Progressivism, Harm Reduction, and Drug Policy: From War to Health and Rights
Fernando M. Perez
Chapter 5 "In the Land of the Blind": Evaluating Obama's Environmental Record
Kent D. Shifferd
Chapter 6 Rating the 44th President on Immigration
Randall Amster and Margaret Groarke
Chapter 7 Obama at War
Nicolas J. S. Davies
Chapter 8 Race and the Obama Presidency
Victor Romano and Melanie Sberna Hinojosa
Chapter 9 The First Female President? Assessing Obama's First-Term Work on Women's Issues
Laura L. Finley
Chapter 10 Waiting for Change: Obama and the LGBT Community
P. Tom Semm and Christina Sanchez-Weston
Chapter 11 Being Progressive on National Security: The Rolling Back of Bush Administration Policies and Keeping America Safe
Christian A. I. Schlaerth, Aaron Puhrmann, Katelyn Rozenbroek, and Hilary H. Cook
Conclusion: Obama and the Future of Progressivism in the United States
Laura L. Finley and Luigi Esposito
About the Editors and Contributors
Index