Review title: Humanist Manifesto
Reviewer: Sreeram Chaulia
Asia Times online, Sept 25, 2010 http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LI25Ak01.html
Reviewer: Wilson Aiwuyor
Face2FaceAfrica, April 29, 2011
http://face2faceafrica.com/article/book-review-barack-obama-and-21st-century-politics-a-revolutionary-moment-in-the-usa
Reviewer: Wilson Aiwuyor
Face2FaceAfrica, April 29, 2011
http://face2faceafrica.com/article/book-review-barack-obama-and-21st-century-politics-a-revolutionary-moment-in-the-usa
Review title: 'Barack Obama and 21st Century Politics' Breaks Down Revolutionary Movements behind President's Campaign
Reviewer: Sara Miller
SU News, September 9, 2010
http://www.syr.edu/news/articles/2010/horace-campbell-obama-09-10.html
Review title: Barack Obama: A Contradiction Between the Messenger and the Message
Reviewer: Wazir Mohamed
Pambazuka News, November 4, 2010
Reviewer: Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Blackcommentator.com, January 20, 2011
Review title: Reflections on Horace Campbell’s Progressive View of Barack Obama’s 2008 Election
Reviewer: Martin Kilson
Blackcommentator.com, December 2, 2010
Reviewer: Eusi Kwayana
Blackcommentator.com, February 17, 2011
http://www.blackcommentator.com/414/414_campbell_book_review_kwayana_guest_share.html Endorsements of Barack Obama and 21st Century Politics
"This book helps us recognise that we are living in a revolutionary moment.... We need to develop new consciousness... and become active in new political sites where people are creating participatory democracy in struggles for life, education, health and community."
- Grace Lee Boggs, author, anti-racist activist and feminist
"Scholar-activist Horace Campbell has given us a provoocative new perspective on the United State's first Black President. The book is a 'must read' for those interested in Black America and American politics and the shifting global realities of the 21st century. It is sure to spark animaterd debate."
"Barack Obama's presidency provides a rare opening for change. Whether we make use of it as we should is up to us.... Campbell's book is a bracing reminder of all the threads of history woven into this extraordinary moment, a warning about the military and financial forces trying to keep things as they are, and an inspiration to work for the very different world that could be within our grasp."
- Adam Hochschild, writer and journalist, co-founder of Mother Jones magazine and author of King Leopold's Ghost
"Scholar-activist Horace Campbell has given us a provoocative new perspective on the United State's first Black President. The book is a 'must read' for those interested in Black America and American politics and the shifting global realities of the 21st century. It is sure to spark animaterd debate."
-Barbara Ransby, Associate Professor of African American Studies and History, University of Illinois, Chicago
"Horace Campbell probes the campaign of Barack Obama and finds a revolutionary potential vested in the use of new strategies and in its agenda for progressive social, economic and political change that would be historic if successfully affected in governance and accepted by a society truly ready for change."
- Ronald W. Walters, former Director of the African American Leadership Institute of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park.
