Claude A. Clegg III is the Lyle V. Jones Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad and Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South.
. . . a gracefully written, scrupulously balanced and quite satisfying account of what Obama meant for Black Americans. —The New York Times Book Review A brilliant book. —Dorothy V. Smith, M. Phil, PhD, Dillard University, African & Asian Studies Journal of The Netherlands A scholarly and well-written book that considers what the Obama presidency did for Black Americans. Professor Clegg describes very eloquently the glamour and hope of the Obama presidency while assessing the accomplishments and domestic failures beneath it. —Vince Cable, former Liberal Democrat leader 2017—2019 Clegg is a compelling writer with an understated wit. His account is comprehensive and judicious. —Daniel Geary, Trinity College Dublin, The Irish Times The Black President: Hope and fury in the age of Obama by Claude A. Clegg III is an impressive attempt to gauge how well the former president performed in that impossible job.... This thoughtful, even-handed, highly useful book looks at the entire span of the forty-fourth US presidency. —Clifford Thompson, The Times Literary Supplement Recommended. —D. R. Jamieson, Choice