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The Mendacity of Hope

Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism

Roger D. Hodge

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Roger D. Hodge

Roger D. Hodge was the editor-in-chief of Harper’s Magazine from 2006 to 2010. Hodge began his journalism career as a freelance writer in 1989 and joined the staff of Harper’s in 1996. He was a National Magazine Award finalist in Reviews and Criticism in 2006, and has worked as a ranch hand, an insurance adjuster, and for several years taught philosophy at Eugene Lang College. Hodge was born in 1967 and raised in Del Rio, TX. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife and their two sons.



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Roger D. Hodge
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"The Mendacity of Hope is a roundhouse punch at the notion that Obama is anything but a conventional corporate liberal, supine before the moneyed interests."


- Michael Tomasky, The New York Review of Books
"An excellent book. . . . US politics has ended up as a battle between the mostly corrupt and the entirely corrupt. . . . It's long past time to put away your Obama t-shirt and take out your protest banner."


- Johann Hari, The Independent
"Ready to wake up from the Obama dream yet? If so, this thrillingly scathing and relentlessly truthful cri de coeur is your strong cup of coffee. Hodge skewers the sloppy intellectual culture that willed this political chimera into being, while expertly unmasking the corporate machine that is the real Brand Obama. Drink up."


- Naomi Klein
"This is what I've been waiting for-a profound and hard-hitting critique of the Obama administration from the left! The Mendacity of Hope should help wake up all those Obama-voters who've been napping while the wars escalate, the recession deepens, and the environment goes straight to hell."


- Barbara Ehrenreich
"Hodge skillfully draws the veil from Obama's allegedly 'reformist agenda' to expose the reality of the programs 'to ensure that no major stakeholder in his coalition of corporate backers will suffer significant losses,' and will even enjoy spectacular gains-the 'perfection of the long right turn' of the Democratic Party since the 1970s, as financialization of the economy led to shedding New Deal commitments so as 'to compete with the Republicans for corporate patronage.' He calls for revitalization of the founding tradition of civil virtue and republican values of liberty, a message that should be taken to heart if we are to reverse the drift towards an ugly future."


- Noam Chomsky
"Roger Hodge has written a desperately needed expose of how Barack Obama is not the messiah of liberalism but its designated gravedigger-he is one of the all too few voices on the progressive side who dares to tell the truth about the corporate masters this administration actually serves, and the dire effect of that allegiance upon what is left of our Republic. This is a blazing indictment of corporate collusion and a bracing injection of hard truths."


- Naomi Wolf
"An eloquently sober indictment of the corruption which impels the self-aggrandizement of our executive branch, much to the bane of our Constitution. A frightening book whose conclusions ought to haunt every American."


- William T. Vollmann