When Barack Obama clinched his bid for president, his precedent-setting victory redefined politics-as-usual. In Full of the Hope That the Present Has Brought Us, Michael Eric Dyson deftly explores how Obama resisted race and occasionally embraced it, as he led America beyond the paralyzing polemic of black and white. His new book sparkles with the erudition and intimate knowledge of an insider, as he helps us understand this watershed event in American history.

Michael Eric Dyson is University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University and author of sixteen books, including Holler If You Hear Me, Is Bill Cosby Right?, and I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King Jr.