Bibliography of Barack Obama

Last updated May 06, 2025

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

Abramsky, Sasha (December 1, 2009). Inside Obama's Brain. Penguin. ISBN 978-1-101-15953-8.
Alter, Jonathan B. (2010). The Promise: President Obama, Year One . New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-0119-3.
Andersen, Christopher P. (2009). Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage . New York: William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-06-177196-5.
Anonymous (2011). O: A Presidential Novel . New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-2596-7.
Baker, Peter (2017). Obama: The Call of History. New York Times/Callaway. ISBN 978-0935112900.
Bolton, John R.; Geller, Pamela A.; Spencer, Robert C. (2010). The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America. Threshold Editions. ISBN 978-1-4391-8930-6.
Bolton, John R. (February 2011). How Barack Obama Is Endangering Our National Sovereignty. ISBN 978-1-4587-3046-6.
Brewer, Dirk; Jocelyn, J. Michael (January 6, 2010). President Obama's Broken Promises: Race, Religion & Gay Rights. Independently Published. ISBN 978-1-7181-9690-2.
Cashill, Jack (October 7, 2014). "You Lie!": The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-06-234752-7.
Carney, Timothy P. (November 30, 2009). Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-59698-134-8.
Chait, Jonathan (2017). Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail. Custom House. ISBN 978-0062426970.
Chollet, Derek (2016). The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America's Role in the World. New York: Public Affairs. ISBN 978-1610396608.

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.
Clair, Jeffrey St; Frank, Joshua (May 15, 2012). Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion. AK Press. ISBN 978-1-84935-111-9.
Cobb, Jelani (October 13, 2020). The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-63557-743-3.
Corsi, Jerome R. (2008). The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality . New York: Threshold Editions/Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-9806-0.
Crotty, William, ed. (2012). The Obama Presidency: Promise and Performance. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0739172346.

D'Antonio, Michael (2017). A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama. Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 978-1250081391.^[1]
D'Souza, Dinesh (October 4, 2011). The Roots of Obama's Rage. Regnery Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59698-276-5.
D'Souza, Dinesh (July 2014). Obama's America: Unmaking the American Dream. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-7335-3.
Delingpole, James (February 9, 2009). Welcome to Obamaland: I Have Seen Your Future and It Doesn't Work. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-59698-098-3.
Dorrien, Gary (February 16, 2012). The Obama Question: A Progressive Perspective. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4422-1539-9.

Freddoso, David (2008). The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate . Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59698-566-7.
Freddoso, David (2011). Gangster Government: Barack Obama and the New Washington Thugocracy . Regnery Publishing. ISBN 9781596986480.
Freddoso, David (January 28, 2013). Spin Masters: How the Media Ignored the Real News and Helped Reelect Barack Obama. Regnery Publishing. ISBN 978-1-62157-080-6.
Frazier, Mondo (October 25, 2011). The Secret Life of Barack Hussein Obama. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-3320-7.
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)
Gillespie, Andra (January 14, 2019). Race and the Obama Administration: Substance, symbols, and hope. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-0503-5.
Grunwald, Michael (2012). The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era . New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-4232-2.
Halperin, Mark S.; Heilemann, John (2010). Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime . New York: Harper. ISBN 978-0-06-196620-0.
Halperin, Mark S.; Heilemann, John (2012). Double Down: Game Change 2012 . New York: Harper. ISBN 978-1594204401.
Hannity, Sean (2010). Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama's Radical Agenda . Harper Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0-06-200305-8.
Healy, Gene (October 17, 2012). False Idol: Barack Obama and the Continuing Cult of the Presidency. Cato Institute. ISBN 978-0-932790-41-5.
Hewitt, Hugh (June 26, 2012). The Brief Against Obama: The Rise, Fall & Epic Fail of the Hope & Change Presidency. Center Street. ISBN 978-1-4555-1629-2.
Hodge, Roger D. (October 5, 2010). The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-06-202496-1.
Ingraham, Laura (2010). The Obama Diaries . Threshold Editions. ISBN 978-1-4391-9751-6.
Jacobs, Sally H. (2011). The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father . New York: PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1-58648-793-5.

Kaufman, Burton I. (March 15, 2022). Barack Obama: Conservative, Pragmatist, Progressive. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-5017-6199-7.
Klein, Edward (June 3, 2013). The Amateur: Barrack Obama in the White House. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-62157-165-0.

Lee, T. S. (2009). The Obama Story: The Boy With the Biggest Dream! (Great Heroes) (in Korean). Dasan Productions. ISBN 978-0-9819542-0-2.
Limbaugh, David (2010). Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc. ISBN 978-1-59698-624-4.
Limbaugh, David (2012). The Great Destroyer . Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc. ISBN 978-1-59698-777-7.
Litt, David (September 19, 2017). Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years (A Speechwriter's Memoir). HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-256846-5.

McElya, Micki (2011). "To "Choose Our Better History": Assessing the Obama Presidency in Real Time". American Quarterly. 63: 179–189. doi:10.1353/aq.2011.0012. S2CID 145168784.

Maass, Matthias. The World Views of the Obama Era (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
McGann, Eileen; Morris, Dick (2009). Catastrophe: How Obama, Congress, and the Special Interests Are Transforming a Slump Into a Crash, Freedom Into Socialism, and a Disaster Into a Catastrophe... and How to Fight Back . New York: Harper. ISBN 978-0-06-177104-0.

Malkin, Michelle (2009). Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies . Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59698-109-6.
Mattera, Jason (2010). Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation . Threshold Editions. ISBN 978-1-4391-7207-0.
Maraniss, David (2012). Barack Obama: The Story . New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-6040-4.
Mendell, David (2007). Obama: From Promise to Power . New York: Amistad/HarperCollinsPublishers. ISBN 978-0-06-085820-9.
Michener, Mitch (July 2011). Barack Obama: Hope Destroyed. Tate Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61777-320-4.

Newberry, Tommy (January 12, 2010). The War On Success: How the Obama Agenda Is Shattering the American Dream. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-59698-136-2.

Obama, Barack; et al. (2008). Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise. New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-307-46045-5.^[2]
Obenshain, Kate (September 4, 2012). Divider-in-Chief: The Fraud of Hope and Change. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-62157-016-5.

Patterson, Gary R. (July 14, 2020). A President's Dithering False Bravado: Obama Caved in Accepting Putin's Rigged Syrian Weapons Deal. Outskirts Press, Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-9772-2144-5.
Patterson, Robert (August 31, 2010). Conduct Unbecoming: How Barack Obama is Destroying The Military and Endangering Our Security. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-59698-161-4.
Press, Bill (January 31, 2012). The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President---and Who Is Behind Them. Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4299-4125-9.
Presta, John (2010). Mr. and Mrs. Grassroots: How Barack Obama, Two Bookstore Owners, and 300 Volunteers Did It . Paoli, Pennsylvania: The Elevator Group. ISBN 978-0-375-70230-3.
Pomante (Ii), Michael J.; Schraufnagel, Scot (2018). Historical Dictionary of the Barack Obama Administration. ISBN 978-1538111512.
Price, Joann F. (November 21, 2008). Barack Obama: The Voice of an American Leader. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-0-313-36237-8.

Rall, Ted (June 19, 2012). The Book of Obama: From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 978-1-60980-451-0.
Remnick, David (2011). The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama . London: Vintage. ISBN 978-0-981-97192-6.
Rudalevige, Andrew (2012). "'A Majority Is the Best Repartee': Barack Obama and Congress, 2009-2012". Social Science Quarterly. 93 (5): 1272–1294. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6237.2012.00910.x.
Rudalevige, Andrew (2016). "The Contemporary Presidency: The Obama Administrative Presidency: Some Late-Term Patterns". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 46 (4): 868–890. doi:10.1111/psq.12323.

Savage, Charlie (2015). Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 9780316286572. OCLC 907941518. Ebook edition: Power Wars: The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy.
Scott, Janny (2011). A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother . Riverhead Hardcover. ISBN 978-1-59448-797-2.
Schneiderhan, Erik (May 27, 2015). The Size of Others' Burdens: Barack Obama, Jane Addams, and the Politics of Helping Others. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-9495-4.
Shapiro, Ben (April 28, 2015). The People Vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against the Obama Administration. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-6515-0.
Skocpol, Theda; Jacobs, Lawrence R. (2012). "Accomplished and Embattled: Understanding Obama's Presidency". Political Science Quarterly. 127: 1–24. doi:10.1002/j.1538-165X.2012.tb00718.x.

von Marschall, Christoph (2007). Barack Obama - Der schwarze Kennedy [Barack Obama – The black Kennedy] (in German). Orell Fuessli Verlag. ISBN 978-3-280-06108-4.

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.
Wise, Tim (2009). Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama . San Francisco: City Lights Books. ISBN 978-0-87286-500-6.
Wolffe, Richard (2009). Renegade: The Making of a President. New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-307-46313-5.^[3]
Wolffe, Richard (2010). Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House. Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-71741-2.
Wolffe, Richard (2013). The Message: The Reselling of President Obama . Twelve. ISBN 978-1455581566.
Woodward, Bob (2010). Obama's Wars . New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-7249-0.
Zelizer, Julian E. (2018). The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691160283.

Autobiographies

Obama, Barack (2004). Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance . New York: Broadway. ISBN 1400082773.^[4]
Obama, Barack (2008). The Audacity of Hope . New York: Vintage. ISBN 978-0307455871.^[4]
Obama, Barack (November 17, 2020). A Promised Land . New York: Crown. ISBN 978-1-5247-6316-9.

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
Ferrara, Mark S. (July 16, 2013). Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-6793-8.
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.

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).
Easton, Jaclyn, ed. (2008). Inspire a Nation: Barack Obama's Most Electrifying Speeches of the 2008 Election. Publishing 180. ISBN 978-0982100509.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Obama, Barack; Lincoln, Abraham (2009). The Inaugural Address, 2009: Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and the Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance . New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-311642-4.
Olive, David I. (2008). An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama: A Primer . Toronto: ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-55022-864-9.
Rogak, Lisa (2009). Barack Obama in His Own Words. Running Press Miniature Editions. ISBN 978-0-7624-3789-4.
Ruth, Greg (2009). Our Enduring Spirit: President Barack Obama's First Words to America. London: Collins. ISBN 978-0-06-183455-4.
Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean (2009). The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" . Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 978-1-59691-667-8.

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.

References

↑ Lozada, Carlos (January 13, 2017). "The early drafts of the Obama legacy are in — and they're way over the top". The Washington Post . Archived from the original on April 13, 2017. Retrieved May 30, 2017.
↑ "Barack Obama policy book coming out Sept. 9". Today . August 11, 2008. Archived from the original on April 9, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
↑ McGuire, Stryker (August 22, 2009). "Renegade: The Making of a President by Richard Wolffe". The Guardian . Archived from the original on April 9, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
1 2 "Barack Obama Books". Obama Zone. Archived from the original on May 19, 2008. Retrieved November 28, 2012.

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[1] Lozada, Carlos (January 13, 2017). "The early drafts of the Obama legacy are in — and they're way over the top". The Washington Post . Archived from the original on April 13, 2017. Retrieved May 30, 2017.

[2] "Barack Obama policy book coming out Sept. 9". Today . August 11, 2008. Archived from the original on April 9, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2017.

[3] McGuire, Stryker (August 22, 2009). "Renegade: The Making of a President by Richard Wolffe". The Guardian . Archived from the original on April 9, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2017.

[obamazone-4] 1 2 "Barack Obama Books". Obama Zone. Archived from the original on May 19, 2008. Retrieved November 28, 2012.

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