"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Shipping:
FREE
Within U.S.A.
Book Description hardcover. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 1400043603-11-31875300
Book Description Condition: New. Book is in NEW condition. Seller Inventory # 1400043603-2-1
Book Description Condition: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published. Seller Inventory # 353-1400043603-new
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. INDISPENSABLE: MASTERPIECE: COLLECTIBLE: NEW: Stated First Edition hardcover (orig. April 6, 2010), NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ orig. $29.95 price top right inside front flyleaf, NEW cover w/ steel-blue linen wrapping spine & extending 1.38" onto front & back panels covered in handsome crimson paper w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & Knopf logo handsomely silver-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges & cut-page-style deckle side-edging, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE unblemished b-w illus. card-stock end-paper double-spread formats (front) an encounter between police & Civil Rights protesters led by Martin Luther King & John Lewis & (back) inauguration of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on the West Portico of the U.S. Capitol, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Janson on SUPERB unblemished paper * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.12", 1.12 kg, x+656 (668) pp. * Prologue: The Joshua Generation (3), Parts I-V (29-580), Epilogue (581), Debts & Sources (587), Notes (593), Bibliography (617), Index (625) * No story has been more central to America's history this century than the rise of Barack Obama & until now no journalist or historian has written a book that fully investigates the circumstances & experiences of Obama's life or explores the ambition behind his rise. Those familiar w/ Obama's own best-selling memoir or his campaign speeches know the touchstones & details that he chooses to emphasize, but now, from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance of unfolding events is without peer, we have a portrait at once masterly & fresh, nuanced & unexpected, of a young man in search of himself & of a rising politician determined to become the 1st African-American president. "The Bridge" offers the most complete account yet of Obama's tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned his family & ended his life as a beaten man; of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, who had a child as a teenager & then built her career as an anthropologist living & studying in Indonesia; & of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama to the social tensions & intellectual currents that would force him to imagine & fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews w/ friends & teachers, mentors & disparagers, family members & Obama himself, David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished & confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an experience that not only shaped his urge to work in politics but gave him a home & community & that propelled him to Harvard Law School where his sense of a greater mission emerged. Deftly setting Obama's political career against the galvanizing intersection of race & politics in Chicago's history, Remnick shows us how that city's complex racial legacy would make Obama's forays into politics a source of controversy & bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes w/ older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, & the story (from both sides) of his confrontation w/ his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. By looking at Obama's political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis & Joseph Lowery, heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties & understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders. "The Bridge" revisits the American drama of race from slavery to civil rights, & makes clear how Obama's quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a different future. Seller Inventory # 010166
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_1400043603
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New. Seller Inventory # Wizard1400043603
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think1400043603
Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # FrontCover1400043603
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Knopf 2010 First edition, First printing. Condition: Fine/fine/fine; new and unread. Red hardboards with blue spine; silver printing; corners sharp. Textblock clean, tight, square, unmarked, unused. Glossy pictorial dust jacket, unclipped with original price on flap; flawless. Protected in clear archival Brodart wrapper. Packaged with care and shipped in a box to arrive in best condition. Complete satisfaction guarantee; no sale is final until you are satisfied. "'The Bridge' revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obama's quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives." (from the flap). Seller Inventory # 100419-3
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by author David Remnick, in black ink on title page. Knopf 2010 First Edition, First Printing. Fine/fine; new and unread. Red hardboards with blue spine; silver printing; corners sharp. Textblock clean, tight, square, unmarked, unused. Glossy pictorial dust jacket, unclipped with original price on flap; flawless. Protected in clear archival Brodart wrapper. Packaged with care and shipped in a box to arrive in best condition. Complete satisfaction guarantee; no sale is final until you are satisfied. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 100425-1