Don't wait for the media RE-Write...
Make this a history WE-Write!
"A pre-emptive, crowd-funded, people-produced history book!"
"A year-by-year, full-colour, 150-page, 365-image, all-inclusive timeline, highlight reel, random photo album and history book of the two-term Barack Obama presidency with time and place captions, and behind-the-scenes photographer commentary, featuring introduction and 'legacy rhymes' by author Walt F.J. Goodridge."
pre-empt: to prevent an anticipated occurrence or to take action before another person is able to; to preclude, to forestall
More often than not, what passes as history is a "RE-Write" crafted by those with their own agenda and biases. Well, we the people have an agenda, too. Our agenda is fairness when it comes to telling this story. A "WE-Write" is simply history written by we the people.
In a few months, something significant will be happening. American president, Barack Hussein Obama, will be ending his historic two-terms in office as 44th president of the United States of America.
Now, it would be great if Americans lived in a society where such a trivial matter as the color of his skin did not affect how he will be remembered, but unfortunately that society does not yet exist.
If you've lived in or observed America for any length of time, you've seen how it happens time and again. Genocide and slavery are sanitized for the textbooks. War criminals are pardoned and their crimes overlooked and forgotten by the media. Hollywood fictionalizes history and that fiction becomes real in the public's collective mind.
We must not allow that to happen this time. Don't allow pundits, politicians and producers to determine how you and your children remember his presidency.
The Obama Legacy We-Write Project is a way for we the people--all of us--to take action to prepare, present, promote and preserve this legacy and pre-empt the RE-Write of history that is likely to occur.
It's a very simple idea: to document and present in a permanent way the accomplishments of this president, and to give people the information, facts, images and words to pre-empt the media, Hollywood and history textbook RE-Writes that are likely to occur over time.
Let's create and direct this conversation. Let's control the narrative. Can we? Yes, we can!
Eight years is a long time, and with media coverage that jumps from one breaking news story to the next, it's easy, or perhaps inevitable that we forget some of the milestones that made this presidency arguably, one of the most consequential in American history. This unique volume captures them all!
• "Obamania"
• "The Ground Game" and era of Social Media campaigning
• Lilly Ledbetter Act
• Cuba relations
• Osama Bin Laden
• Universal Health Care
• Female Supreme Court Justices
• Gay marriage rights
• Triumph over the "one-term obstructionists"
• The Nobel Peace Prize
• The economy
• Unemployment rate
• Troop withdrawal, and more
...with citations, photos and commentary and more, in an easy-to-read, bold, colour keepsake that will last for years!
Language
English
Pages
150
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
August 10, 2016
The Obama Legacy British Edition: A We-Write of the Greatest American Presidency
Don't wait for the media RE-Write...
Make this a history WE-Write!
"A pre-emptive, crowd-funded, people-produced history book!"
"A year-by-year, full-colour, 150-page, 365-image, all-inclusive timeline, highlight reel, random photo album and history book of the two-term Barack Obama presidency with time and place captions, and behind-the-scenes photographer commentary, featuring introduction and 'legacy rhymes' by author Walt F.J. Goodridge."
pre-empt: to prevent an anticipated occurrence or to take action before another person is able to; to preclude, to forestall
More often than not, what passes as history is a "RE-Write" crafted by those with their own agenda and biases. Well, we the people have an agenda, too. Our agenda is fairness when it comes to telling this story. A "WE-Write" is simply history written by we the people.
In a few months, something significant will be happening. American president, Barack Hussein Obama, will be ending his historic two-terms in office as 44th president of the United States of America.
Now, it would be great if Americans lived in a society where such a trivial matter as the color of his skin did not affect how he will be remembered, but unfortunately that society does not yet exist.
If you've lived in or observed America for any length of time, you've seen how it happens time and again. Genocide and slavery are sanitized for the textbooks. War criminals are pardoned and their crimes overlooked and forgotten by the media. Hollywood fictionalizes history and that fiction becomes real in the public's collective mind.
We must not allow that to happen this time. Don't allow pundits, politicians and producers to determine how you and your children remember his presidency.
The Obama Legacy We-Write Project is a way for we the people--all of us--to take action to prepare, present, promote and preserve this legacy and pre-empt the RE-Write of history that is likely to occur.
It's a very simple idea: to document and present in a permanent way the accomplishments of this president, and to give people the information, facts, images and words to pre-empt the media, Hollywood and history textbook RE-Writes that are likely to occur over time.
Let's create and direct this conversation. Let's control the narrative. Can we? Yes, we can!
Eight years is a long time, and with media coverage that jumps from one breaking news story to the next, it's easy, or perhaps inevitable that we forget some of the milestones that made this presidency arguably, one of the most consequential in American history. This unique volume captures them all!
• "Obamania"
• "The Ground Game" and era of Social Media campaigning
• Lilly Ledbetter Act
• Cuba relations
• Osama Bin Laden
• Universal Health Care
• Female Supreme Court Justices
• Gay marriage rights
• Triumph over the "one-term obstructionists"
• The Nobel Peace Prize
• The economy
• Unemployment rate
• Troop withdrawal, and more
...with citations, photos and commentary and more, in an easy-to-read, bold, colour keepsake that will last for years!