Professor Dr. Euclid Asquith Rose, 3 Books on President Barack Hussein Obama; Socialism in the Caribbean and CANADA Foreign AID Program.

A Race to the Finish Line: The Election of Barack Hussein Obama II as the First Black President of the United States Paperback – June 28, 2024.                  344 PAGES.      by Dr Euclid A Rose PhD (Author)

Occasionally, a great manuscript is written about someone great, and that great manuscript is A Race to the Finish Line, and that someone great is Barack Hussein Obama, the first African American to be elected president of the United States of America.

Rose’s work is a brilliant analysis of the struggles that Barack Obama overcame to reach the Oval Office and as the commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in the United States. The book is intellectually stimulating and insightful. It chronicles Obama’s life from birth and examines the forces that shaped his life and made him the forty-fourth president of the United States. It explains how Obama defeated three renowned, admired, and experienced politicians–former first lady and Senator Hillary Clinton, former prisoner of war and Senator John McCain, and former Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney–to become president of the United States.

Rose’s work presents fresh insights into Obama’s life–from his birth in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961, to Seattle and then Jakarta, Indonesia. The book is a definitive account of Barack Obama’s formative years, which made him the man he became. After graduating from Punahou School, a private, elite all-white academy in Honolulu, the young Obama entered Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, and after two years, he transferred to Columbia University, an Ivy League college in New York City, and to Harvard University Law School, where he was elected as the first African American president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review.

Dr. Rose’s penetrating and captivating work describes Barack Obama’s tumultuous upbringing as a young man of mixed race who was raised almost exclusively by his white grandparents, his marriage to Michelle Robinson in Chicago in 1992, and his work as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004, and serving as a US senator from 2004 to 2008 when he was elected President of the United States. The book reveals that Occidental College has had a profound impact on Obama’s life, because according to him, it was at Occidental College that he took life seriously and was awakened to the notion that he could make a difference in the world.

Rose’s epic work is a rich tapestry of a life little known or understood prior to his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, which instantly catapulted him into the national spotlight.

The book is a classic narrative drawn from hundreds of interviews, including several of President Obama’s advisers, friends, and classmates and a trove of articles, journals, and other documents. It tells the human story of a man–Barack Hussein Obama–who changed the course of history and the world in a way that no one else can and no one expected. As a result, he is considered one of the most significant figures of the twenty-first century.

It is a groundbreaking and multigenerational manuscript; a richly textured account of President Obama’s life from childhood to adulthood as he tried to make sense of his past, established his own identity as he prepared for his political future. It is a beautifully written and powerful book that captured Barack Obama’s time as a community organizer in one of Chicago City’s roughest neighborhoods as he grappled with the role that faith has in store for him.

It is a fascinating account about a young man born into uncommon family and perhaps unusual circumstances–son of a black man from Kenya, Africa, and a white woman from the state of Kansas in the United States. It is a first-rate account of the human struggles of one of the most interesting and exciting presidents of our time, Barack Hussain Obama

Dependency and Socialism in the Modern Caribbean

Superpower Intervention in Guyana, Jamaica, and Grenada, 1970-1985

Euclid A. Rose (Author) , Alvin Magid (Foreword)

Description

Was the Anglophone Caribbean condemned by its colonial history to permanent conditions of dependency and by Cold War geopolitical realities to international interventionism? In Dependency and Socialism in the Modern Caribbean Euclid Rose focuses upon the efforts made by the English-speaking Caribbean-through case studies that compare and contrast the political economies of Guyana, Jamaica, and Grenada-to break out of the legacy of colonial dependency and underdevelopment through the implementation of a Caribbean brand of SOCIALISM.

The work considers the Caribbean’s adoption of Fabian-style socialism as an alternative to capitalist development and how these socialist policies were impacted by differences in infrastructure capacity, economic and social resources, and political agendas. It highlights the pivotal role of race and class, and the hitherto little studied impact of religion, on the region’s political economy.

Moreover, the study calculates the impact of the global economy upon Caribbean socio-economic conditions, and the ideological, geopolitical, and strategic implications of the Cold War and the Caribbean’s socialist alignment on the nature, character, and intensity of British and American interventionism in the region. A must read for political economists in search of a greater understanding of the postcolonial political economy of the Caribbean and Latin America.

It is almost four and a half decades since Canada began giving aid to the underdeveloped countries. The concept was new but there was a strong obligation among Canadians to help the poor and less fortunate peoples in the Third World. During the post-war period, Canada’s foreign aid programs were characterized as selfish and confusing by many Canadians.

In the Third World, they were considered to be deceptive in the sense that aid has made Canada the real recipient and not the developing countries. The reasons are understandable since CIDA’s aid policies were influenced by internal and external factors.

Aid was used to promote trade and investment, to create jobs in Canada, assist Canadian farmers and to boost the Canadian economy. Overseas, aid was used to protect Canadian economic interests or try to influence internal politics or foreign policy views of recipients as well as to increase Canada’s image and prestige among donors. Such use of aid is readily interpreted by the leaders of the Third World as proof that Canada’s entire aid program is part of a neo-imperialist scheme.

While most Canadians supported foreign aid, they knew very little about it and the ones who knew were skeptical about its effectiveness. Furthermore, the paucity of bibliography proved that academics were not interested in the subject.

This lack of interest is primarily due to the difficulty in obtaining information from the Canadian Government who regarded aid as a sensitive issue of Canada’s relations with the Third World. In addition, Ottawa realized that critical scrutiny by academics of its aid program could embarrass the Canadian government as well as recipients and undermine public confidence in aid.