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 (CQ Press, 2013) online, 1075 pp of highly detailed coverage of all major themes
 * Congressional Quarterly. Congress and the Nation: Volume 14: 2012-2016 (CQ Press, 2017)
 * Conley, Richard S., and Kevin Baron. "Obama’s ‘Hidden-Hand’ Presidency: Myth, Metaphor, or Misrepresentation?." White House Studies 13 (2015): 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 (2018): 141-163. online
 * Garrow, David, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (May 2017)
 * 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 (2018): 141-163. online
 * Garrow, David, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (May 2017)
 * 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 (2018): 141-163. online
 * Garrow, David, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (May 2017)








 * Maass, Matthias. The World Views of the Obama Era (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).












 * Ebook edition: Power Wars: The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy.




 * White, John Kenneth (2009). Barack Obama's America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era. University of Michigan Press.  ISBN 978-0-472-11450-4.

Rhetoric

 * Baysha, Olga. "Synecdoche that kills: How Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin constructed different Ukraines for different ends." International Communication Gazette 80.3 (2018): 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 (2018): 14-18.
 * Bostdorff, Denise M. "Obama, Trump, and reflections on the rhetoric of political change." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 20.4 (2017): 695-706. online
 * Gleason, Timothy R., and Sara S. Hansen. "Image control: The visual rhetoric of President Obama." Howard Journal of Communications 28.1 (2017): 55-71.
 * Hill, Theon E. "Sanitizing the struggle: Barack Obama, Selma, and civil rights memory." Communication Quarterly 65.3 (2017): 354-376.
 * Hill, Theon E. "Sanitizing the struggle: Barack Obama, Selma, and civil rights memory." Communication Quarterly 65.3 (2017): 354-376.


 * Holliday, N. "'My Presiden(t) and Firs(t) Lady Were Black': Style, Context, and Coronal Stop Deletion in the Speech of Barack and Michelle Obama." American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage (2017) 92(4), 459-486, “My Presiden(t) and Firs(t) Lady Were Black”:
 * 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. online


 * Iversen, Stefan, and Henrik Skov Nielsen. "Invention as intervention in the rhetoric of Barack Obama." Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies 9.1-2 (2017): 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 (2017): 93-106.


 * Perry, Samuel. "Barack Obama, civil mourning, and prudence in presidential rhetoric." Howard Journal of Communications 28.2 (2017): 160-173
 * St. Onge, Jeffrey. "Neoliberalism as common sense in Barack Obama’s health care rhetoric." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 47.4 (2017): 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. online

Editions of his speeches

 * Dionne, E. J. Jr., and Joy-Ann Reid, eds. We are the change we seek: The speeches of Barack Obama (Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2017).

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.