Politics After Hope - 9781594518539

"Henry A. Giroux has been tracking the war on youth and decline of education and democracy throughout the Bush-Cheney era. In Politics After Hope, Giroux shows how problems of youth, race, education, militarism, and the decline of democracy are rooted in the previous era and provide serious challenges to the Obama administration. Grounding himself in Obama's politics of hope, Giroux sees early problems and failures concerning Obama's response to key issues and provides challenges for the Obama administration to match their rhetoric. A timely look at current political and pedagogical issues that should be of concern to educators and citizens alike."---Douglas Kellner, UCLA, author of Media Culture (1995) and Guys and Guns Amok: Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City Bombing to the Virginia Tech Massacre (2008)

"Giroux's book reminds readers that while Obama has already become a captive of the Presidency as an institution in American politics, his campaign rhetoric had offered an opportunity to revisit the vigor of radical ideas and democracy as an ideal in contemporary America. Focusing upon the linkages among youth, citizenship, education, and social change, Giroux offers a rich array of analysis and ideas that could help to transcend the politics of failure that has increasingly defined American life since the 1960s."---Cary Fraser, Penn State University

"Giroux may be our best champion of youth and here he paints a stark picture of the complicity between corporate greed and governmental abandonment that continues to leave our children vulnerable. This may be Giroux's most accessible book, probably his most timely, and certainly his most powerful."---Richard Quantz, Miami University

"Among many virtues, this book offers a trenchant critique of the war rhetoric in the age of neoconservatism and neoliberalism, and their legacies in the Obama administration. Giroux bases his critique in the characteristically detailed research, historical understandig, and theoretical insight for which he is well knwon, and challenges the Obama administration---and all of us on whom genuine democracy depends---to take heed of no less than the proverbial reminder of what could be repeated from a failure to learn from the lessons of history."---Lewis R. Gordon, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institue for the Study of Race and Social Thought at Temple University and co-author of Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age (Paradigm 2009)