The Forty-Fourth

by Alice Rhodes Hinsley, EdD

Overview

This book captures similarities or parallels of President Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln in private and public life through an intriguing, story-like style rather than just a generic display of separate lists of likenesses or differences between the two.

The narrative creates a pensive argument on the perspective of Barack Obama's presidency by analyzing the appeal and hatred directed to the forty-fourth and sixteenth presidents. This presidential narrative includes vignettes about both presidents and family in brief, descriptive, engaging terms as it piques your curiosity to find out more.

The author clearly shows the relevance of yesterday and today's unsettling times of division, partisanship, polarization, crisis, and obstruction as related to social justice, including growing racial tension, all jeopardizing modern progress and advancement now and in later years.

However, from this reading, you experience a refreshing reminder of the brilliance and ethics of President Obama, which highlights and reflects on his effective, straitlaced presidential leadership style.

Still, as an unlikely candidate, he rose to presidency, demonstrating his genius and that, historically, his time had come to serve and lead the country. Additionally, this presidential legend is a lesson on Obama's powerful capacity of deliberative and thoughtful executive decision-making, which established positive consequences for the people of the nation.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161511336
Publisher:	Mountain Arbor Press
Publication date:	04/12/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

As an African American woman, Alice Rhodes Hinsley, EdD, who is unique in the field of presidential narratives, purposefully writes about Abraham Lincoln with admiration and understanding of Lincoln’s significant contribution to America. She states that the sixteenth president began the long, historic, and winding pathway that led to the fulfilling election event of the forty-fourth president: Barack Obama.
With Hinsley’s avid interest in presidential narrative, she engages in critical research/study in this subject area and is a member of the Lincoln Forum, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

She is an educator with decades of meritorious pedagogical skills in classroom experience at the secondary level, including leadership positions in teaching and learning areas of public school education. Additionally, she serves in higher education as an adjunct professor in general education and communication at Morris Brown College.

Dr. Hinsley lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the proud mother of one son, who is a member of the clergy and a military veteran.