Clodagh Harrington is Lecturer in History at University College Cork. Prior to that, she was Associate Professor of American Politics at De Montfort University, Leicester where she worked since 2006. Her monograph, co-authored with Alex Waddan (University of Leicester) entitled Obama V Trump: the Politics of Presidential Legacy and Rollback was published in 2021 by Edinburgh University Press. The follow-up, Trump V Biden is due for publication by EUP in 2026. Dr Alex Waddan is Associate Professor in American Politics and American Foreign Policy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester. He is the co-author of Obamacare Wars: Federalism, State Politics, and the Affordable Care Act (with Daniel Beland and Philip Rocco, University Press of Kansas, 2016) and he has published in journals including Political Studies, Social Policy and Administration and Political Quarterly. He previously contributed to Assessing The George W. Bush Presidency: A Tale of Two Terms (Wroe & Herbert (eds), EUP, 2009).

In this engaging and important volume, political scientists Clodagh Harrington and Alex Waddan offer a thoroughly researched, clearly written and cogent evaluation of Barack Obama's legacy and Donald Trump's efforts to roll it back while shrewdly assessing the similar ways in which they each used presidential power to achieve dissimilar ends.

• Introduction: Presidential Legacy in the Era of Obama and TrumpA ‘Hard’ Legacy, Under PressureAn Uncertain ‘Soft’ Legacy, Under FireAmerica and the WorldExercising Presidential PowerPublic Communication and VisionConclusion: From ‘Renegade’ to ‘Mogul’

Clodagh Harrington is Lecturer in History at University College Cork. Prior to that, she was Associate Professor of American Politics at De Montfort University, Leicester where she worked since 2006. Her monograph, co-authored with Alex Waddan (University of Leicester) entitled Obama V Trump: the Politics of Presidential Legacy and Rollback was published in 2021 by Edinburgh University Press. The follow-up, Trump V Biden is due for publication by EUP in 2026. Dr Alex Waddan is Associate Professor in American Politics and American Foreign Policy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester. He is the co-author of Obamacare Wars: Federalism, State Politics, and the Affordable Care Act (with Daniel Beland and Philip Rocco, University Press of Kansas, 2016) and he has published in journals including Political Studies, Social Policy and Administration and Political Quarterly. He previously contributed to Assessing The George W. Bush Presidency: A Tale of Two Terms (Wroe & Herbert (eds), EUP, 2009).

In this engaging and important volume, political scientists Clodagh Harrington and Alex Waddan offer a thoroughly researched, clearly written and cogent evaluation of Barack Obama's legacy and Donald Trump's efforts to roll it back while shrewdly assessing the similar ways in which they each used presidential power to achieve dissimilar ends.

• Introduction: Presidential Legacy in the Era of Obama and TrumpA ‘Hard’ Legacy, Under PressureAn Uncertain ‘Soft’ Legacy, Under FireAmerica and the WorldExercising Presidential PowerPublic Communication and VisionConclusion: From ‘Renegade’ to ‘Mogul’

Clodagh Harrington is Lecturer in History at University College Cork. Prior to that, she was Associate Professor of American Politics at De Montfort University, Leicester where she worked since 2006. Her monograph, co-authored with Alex Waddan (University of Leicester) entitled Obama V Trump: the Politics of Presidential Legacy and Rollback was published in 2021 by Edinburgh University Press. The follow-up, Trump V Biden is due for publication by EUP in 2026. Dr Alex Waddan is Associate Professor in American Politics and American Foreign Policy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester. He is the co-author of Obamacare Wars: Federalism, State Politics, and the Affordable Care Act (with Daniel Beland and Philip Rocco, University Press of Kansas, 2016) and he has published in journals including Political Studies, Social Policy and Administration and Political Quarterly. He previously contributed to Assessing The George W. Bush Presidency: A Tale of Two Terms (Wroe & Herbert (eds), EUP, 2009).

In this engaging and important volume, political scientists Clodagh Harrington and Alex Waddan offer a thoroughly researched, clearly written and cogent evaluation of Barack Obama's legacy and Donald Trump's efforts to roll it back while shrewdly assessing the similar ways in which they each used presidential power to achieve dissimilar ends.

• Introduction: Presidential Legacy in the Era of Obama and TrumpA ‘Hard’ Legacy, Under PressureAn Uncertain ‘Soft’ Legacy, Under FireAmerica and the WorldExercising Presidential PowerPublic Communication and VisionConclusion: From ‘Renegade’ to ‘Mogul’