The Worst President in History

By: Matt Margolis, Mark Noonan

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins

Publisher's Summary

As Barack Obama's presidential failures keep adding up, remembering them all can be a challenge. Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan have compiled everything you need to know about the presidency of Barack Obama (so far) into one book. Now you can easily find all the information that was ignored by the media and that Barack Obama would like you to forget. Did Barack Obama really save this country from another Great Depression? Did he really improve our country's image around the world, or unite America? What about the new era of post-partisanship and government transparency? Did he really expand health coverage while lowering costs and cutting taxes? The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama compiles 200 inconvenient truths about Obama's presidency - the facts that will shape his legacy: his real record on the economy; the disaster that is Obamacare; his shocking abuses of taxpayer dollars; his bitterly divisive style of governing; his shameless usurping of the Constitution; his scandals and cover-ups; his policy failures at home and abroad; the unprecedented expansion of government power...and more.

©2016 Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan (P)2017 Tantor

Critic Reviews

"If you want to know why the history books will have a dim view of Barack Obama, this is the book to read." (John Hawkins, Right Wing News)

Partisan Right Wing Hatred and Propaganda

I'm a registered Independent who was disappointed in Obama's presidency. I was hoping to get more intelligent insight on his administration through this book. However, I quickly found out that this book is nothing but Pure Partisan Hatred taken straight from the talking points of Rush or Michael Savage. This book starts out by praising George W., who was truly one of the worst presidents of all time. That tells you all you need to know about these authors. I don't think Margolis or Noonan are capable of saying one critical thing about any conservative, let alone hold them to the same accountability as they hold Obama. Just because you disagree with someone's policy positions does not make them an evil person. Obama has no many flaws, but this book is not palatable, because it's clearly not objective at all. Do not waste your money on this wing-nut drivel.

Information that needs mass dissemination...i

Much information here that needs sharing.. However People tend to believe what they want to believe, whatever fits their pre-conceived narrative. Much of the content is so unnerving that credibility could be questioned. But upon research of the material, it was scary how much proved to be true. This is the same material many of us have already been exposed to but we needed a practiced writer to put it into some kind of order....
Well written and concise....

Enlightening

A very enlightening book that gives a concise list of facts that are not the typical opinionated narratives of today's literature.

just hatred

Was too tough to continue. Just pure hatred. The book was written before the end of his presidency, so looking back at his predictions about voter fraud and immigration was just wrong.

Uninspired Narration Killed It For Me

The content was interesting, but the boring narration and mispronunciations often caused me to zone out.

The worst book in history

I did not vote for Obama. This book is so shallow and petty. Don't waste your time

nothing new

I am surprised at most of what I am hearing, but I did not find any great revelations out of this.

Excellent, evidence based book.

Res ip·sa lo·qui·tur defines this book best. I was impressed to find the content was true. I fact checked the 200 points. Mike Chamberlain is a master at audio work.

Unfortunate title!

This book was first published on July 2, 1916, almost 9 months before the publication of the audio book and 6.5 months before his elecrted termin office.

The title is "Worst President in History", but that is not the point of the book. The authors level 200 separate charges of inappropriate actions (including failures to act) that were negative to the US or the citizens of the country or to our allies. The fact is the Obama presidency was worse, more corrupt, and more against the interest of our country and its citizens than I could possibly imagined when he first took office on January 20, 2009. He made race relations much, much worse. He virtually destroyed the Democrat party at all levels of the executive and legislative branches of federal and state governments. He defined negotiation as him getting everything he wanted and those who disagreed caving completely. As he promised early in his second term he had a "phone and a pen" and would act in any area that he believed Congress should act if they failed to give him what he wanted. He redefined laws by presidential fiat. His appointments, especially judicial at all three levels, were consistently of partisan hacks who hate the US Constitution, as he does. He very selectively enforced laws. Obama negotiated two treaties (Paris climate treaty and Iran treaty) and enforced them without the required Senate approval. He made friends of dictators who are the enemies of the US as he treated our true friends with disdain. He interfered in a major Israeli election by sending his team to help Netanyahu's political opponents. He told the British public that if they passed Brexit Great Britain would "go to the back of the line" in trade considerations with the US. He weaponized the Justice Department, the IRS, and the EPA to use against those citizens who opposed him in any way.

I expected based on the book title to hear comparisons of Obama to other US presidents arriving at the conclusion that he is worst. Instead this book is an excellent 200 count indictment of President Obama and the damage he apparently set out each day to cause.

waste of time... you already know all this...

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

if you didnt keep up with the failures of his administration then you will be astonished at this information.

stopped reading after 1 hour

Don't waste you money or credits. Unreadable trash as far as I am concerned. Not worth the effort

Awful!

Hated it! Couldn't wait to put this audio down. A totally negative account of a presidency that was sensitively and thoughtfully executed.

Very interesting book, very revealing.

This book was really great because it gives you many of the failings of the last president in a concise and easy to understand manner while also doing it in a methodical manner.

The book is clearly partisan in nature, but that is expected given the title, some of the critiques are perhaps not entirely fair because you can't pin every failing that occurs in a massive nation on just one person.

What it does do is list the many failings of the Obama presidency in a clear light. As a person who was broaldly supportive of Obama during his presidency it gives some good texture to the hindsight that his leadership should be held in.