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The Speech

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Originally published August 18, 2009
AuthorsTracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Publishers Bloomsbury Publishing
Page count288
Country United States
EditorsTracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting
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Date of Upd.
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The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" is a non-fiction book edited by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, author of several books on race and director of Vanderbilt University's African American and Diaspora Studies, concerning the "A More Perfect Union" speech of then-Senator Barack Obama.

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