Pulitzer Prize-finalist, cartoonist, independent war journalist, and polemicist Ted Rall returns to Seattle as part of a tour for his new book, The Book of Obama: How We Got from Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt (Seven Stories Press). Here, Ted Rall revisits what he sees as the rapid rise and dizzying fall of Barack Obama as president—and the emergence of the Tea Party and Occupy movements—and draws quite the conclusion: "We the People weren't lied to. We lied to ourselves, both about Obama and the two-party system."

Ted Rall is the author of sixteen books, including The Anti-American Manifesto and To Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue.

Thanks to Elliott Bay Books

Video by Todd Boyle