Chapter One. Obama
The Content of His Character
The Orbit of His Presidency
Chapter Two. Governance : The Obama Administration
The Obama Style
President and Congress
Cabinet and Staff
The Bureaucracy
Politics and Principle
Chapter Three. Governance : The American State
The Regulatory State
The Judicial Battleground
Federalism
Chapter Four. Rough Waters : Finance and the Economy
The Economy and the Polity
Fixing Finance : TARP and Dodd-Frank
The Trial of Jobs
Debt and Taxes
Chapter Five. Home Fires Burning : Social Policy
Obamacare : A Noble Experiment
Climate, Energy, and Transportation
Muffled Fire Bells : Education and Immigration
Chapter Six. Living in the World
Foreign Affairs
The US and the EC : Comparative Perspectives
Chapter Seven. The 2012 Overture
Setting the Stage : The Political Culture
Advocacy, Money, and the Media
Ideology
Chapter Eight. 2012
The Contest
Examining the Entrails
Chapter Nine. Looking Ahead
Into the Second Term : Governing
Into the Second Term : Politics
Status and State
History's Lessons.
Obama's time : a history by Morton Keller. ISBN 9780199383375. Published by Oxford University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.