Evaluating the Obama Presidency: From Transformational Goals to Governing Realities - Hardcoverby Meena Bose (Editor), Paul Fritz (Editor) Barack Obama ran for president in 2008 with a message of a shared purpose uniting all Americans, and was elected with expectations that he would usher in a new national culture under an approach grounded in public engagement that would transcend partisan divisions. But in a system designed for incremental and contested policy making governance, enacting these transformational ambitions proved to be far more