
HONORING OBAMA
An Official Commemorative Record of Presidential Leadership, Civic Duty, Democratic Aspiration, and African American AchievementBy U.S. GovernmentLength7h 45m
About this audiobook
Honoring Obama is a commemorative volume devoted to the public career, presidential legacy, and symbolic significance of Barack Obama. Rather than functioning as a conventional biography, it presents its subject through the institutional language of public remembrance: formal appreciation, historical reflection, and celebration of civic service. Its literary style is ceremonial and documentary, emphasizing clarity, dignity, and collective memory over narrative suspense or psychological intimacy. In this respect, the book belongs to the tradition of official American tributes, in which political achievement is interpreted alongside national ideals of democracy, inclusion, constitutional government, and public responsibility. The author, identified as the U.S. Government, is not an individual writer but an institutional voice. That authorship is crucial to understanding the work's purpose. Produced from within the nation's governmental culture, the volume reflects an effort to record and honor a consequential presidency from the perspective of public service and national continuity. Its attention to Obama's leadership may also be understood against the historical importance of his election and administration, which prompted broad reflection on representation, citizenship, and the evolving American political imagination. Readers interested in presidential history, civic memory, and the rhetoric of national commemoration will find Honoring Obama a valuable primary document. It is especially suited to students and general readers seeking to understand how governmental institutions construct historical meaning and preserve the memory of political leadership. Read critically, it offers not only tribute but also insight into the ideals, assumptions, and public language through which a nation interprets its recent past.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length7 hrs 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 16, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography (Annotated)
2Inaugural Speeches
3First Inaugural Address (2009)
4Second Inaugural Address (2013)
5Main Accomplishments
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6Health Care
7Climate and Energy
8American Leadership
9Economic Progress
10Equality & Social Progress
11Executive Orders
12Presidential Records
13Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities
14Review of Detention Policy Options
15Ensuring Enforcement and Implementation of Abortion Restrictions in the Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act
16Strengthening Protections Against Trafficking In Persons In Federal Contracts
17Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces
18Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade
19Implementing the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States for 2015-2020
20Delegation of Certain Authorities and Assignment of Certain Functions Under the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015
21Amendment to Executive Order 13673
22Developing an Integrated Global Engagement Center To Support Government-wide Counterterrorism Communications Activities Directed Abroad and Revoking Executive Order 13584
23International Agreements & Treaties
24New START
25Paris Agreement
26Farewell Address