Promise: President Obama, Year One AUTH-3483666 Published: 06/08/2012

Published: 06/08/2012

as well as the author of How to Be a Happier Parent

and society at Vanderbilt University

Filled with astonishing disclosures

Promise: President Obama, Year One AUTH-3483666 Published: 06/08/2012Barack Obama's inauguration as president on January 20, 2009, inspired the world. But the great promise of "Change We Can Believe In" was immediately tested by the threat of another Great Depression, a worsening war in Afghanistan, and an entrenched and deeply partisan system of business as usual in Washington. Despite all the coverage, the backstory of Obama's historic first year in office has until now remained a mystery. In The Promise: President