‘The Global Obama’ examines President’s popularity
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Binghamton University professor and journalist Dinesh Sharma has been chronicling and analyzing the Obama presidency for several years. His previous book, “Barack Obama in Hawaii and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President,” in collaboration with President Obama’s sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, was rated one of the Top Ten Black History Books for 2012 by the American Library Association, Book List Online.
In his new book, “The Global Obama: Crossroads of Leadership in the 21st Century” (Routledge, 2014), Sharma focuses on Obama’s attempts to provide global leadership and how he is perceived and judged by the general public around the world. Sharma has gathered a talented team of contributors, covering five continents and more than twenty countries, to assess Obama as a global leader in the context of his policies toward their country or region in which they reside.