Bibliography of Barack Obama


This bibliography of Barack Obama is a list of written and published works, both books and films, about Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.

Scholarly books and articles

  • Congressional Quarterly. Congress and the Nation: Volume 13: 2009-2012, 1075 pp of highly detailed coverage of all major themes
  • * Congressional Quarterly. Congress and the Nation: Volume 14: 2012-2016
  • Conley, Richard S., and Kevin Baron. "Obama’s ‘Hidden-Hand’ Presidency: Myth, Metaphor, or Misrepresentation?." White House Studies 13 : 129-57.
  • Gaman-Golutvina, Oxana. "Political elites in the USA under George W. Bush and Barack Obama: Structure and international politics." Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung 43.4 : 141-163.
  • Garrow, David, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
  • Maass, Matthias. The World Views of the Obama Era.
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  • White, John Kenneth. Barack Obama's America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era. University of Michigan Press. .
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Autobiographies

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Rhetoric

  • Baysha, Olga. "Synecdoche that kills: How Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin constructed different Ukraines for different ends." International Communication Gazette 80.3 : 230-249.
  • Belisle, Jordan, et al. "Feasibility of contextual behavioral speech analyses of US presidents: Inaugural addresses of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, 1993–2017." Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science 10 : 14-18.
  • Bostdorff, Denise M. "Obama, Trump, and reflections on the rhetoric of political change." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 20.4 : 695-706.
  • Gleason, Timothy R., and Sara S. Hansen. "Image control: The visual rhetoric of President Obama." Howard Journal of Communications 28.1 : 55-71.
  • Hill, Theon E. "Sanitizing the struggle: Barack Obama, Selma, and civil rights memory." Communication Quarterly 65.3 : 354-376.
  • Holliday, N. "'My Presiden and Firs Lady Were Black': Style, Context, and Coronal Stop Deletion in the Speech of Barack and Michelle Obama." American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage 92, 459-486,
  • Holliday, Nicole, Jason Bishop, and Grace Kuo. "Prosody and political style: The case of Barack Obama and the L+ H* Pitch accent." Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020.
  • Iversen, Stefan, and Henrik Skov Nielsen. "Invention as intervention in the rhetoric of Barack Obama." Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies 9.1-2 : 121-142.
  • Kurtz, Jeffrey B. "'To Have Your Experience Denied... it Hurts': Barack Obama, James Baldwin, and the Politics of Black Anger." Howard Journal of Communications 28.1 : 93-106.
  • Perry, Samuel. "Barack Obama, civil mourning, and prudence in presidential rhetoric." Howard Journal of Communications 28.2 : 160-173
  • St. Onge, Jeffrey. "Neoliberalism as common sense in Barack Obama’s health care rhetoric." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 47.4 : 295-312.
  • Widiatmika, Putu Wahyu, I. Made Budiarsa, and I. Gde Sadia. "Rhetorical Schemes in Barack Obama’s Winning Speech." Humanis 24.4: 394-401.

Editions of his speeches

  • Dionne, E. J. Jr., and Joy-Ann Reid, eds. We are the change we seek: The speeches of Barack Obama.

Films

2016: Obama's America. Directed by Dinesh D'Souza & John Sullivan, Obama's America Foundation, 2012.America's Great Divide. Directed by Michael Kirk, Kirk Documentary Group, 2020.Barry. Directed by Vikram Gandhi, Black Bear Pictures & Cinetic Media, 2016.Change. Directed by Matteo Barzini, Feel Film, 2010.Dreams from My Real Father. Directed by Joel Gilbert, Highway 61 Entertainment, 2012.The Final Year. Directed by Greg Barker, HBO, 2017.I Want Your Money. Directed by Ray Griggs, RG Entertainment, 2010.Obama Anak Menteng. Directed by Damien Dematra & John de Rantau, Multivision Plus Pictures, 2010.Obama Mama. Directed by Vivian Norris, VNM Productions, 2014.Phas Gaye Re Obama. Directed by Subhash Kapoor, Revel Films, 2010.Southside with You. Directed by Richard Tanne, IM Global & Get Lifted Film, 2016.