The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. David Remnick

David Remnick

ISBN 10: 0330509969 / ISBN 13: 9780330509961

Published by Picador, 2011

About this Item

2011. On Demand. Paperback. From the New Yorker editor and bestselling author of King of the World, the first ever biography of President Obama -- updated in paperback to cover his first two years in Office Num Pages: 600 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; BGH; HBJK; HBLX; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 31. Weight in Grams: 614. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. David Remnick
• Publisher: Picador
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330509969
• ISBN 13: 9780330509961
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

The rise of Barack Obama is one of the great stories of this century: a defining moment for America, and one with truly global resonance. This is the book of his phenomenal journey to election, updated in paperback to cover his first two extraordinary years in Office.

Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick has put together a nuanced, unexpected and masterly portrait of the man who was determined to become the first African-American President.

Most importantly, The Bridge argues that Obama imagined and fashioned an identity for himself against the epic drama of race in America. In a way that Obama''s own memoirs cannot, it examines both the personal and political elements of the story, and gives shape not only to a decisive period of history, but also to the way it crucially influenced, animated and motivated a gifted and complex man.

About the Author

David Remnick was a reporter for the Washington Post for ten years, including four in Moscow. He joined the New Yorker as a writer in 1992 and has been the magazine's editor since 1998. His last book was King of the World, a biography of Muhammad Ali, which was selected by Time as the top non-fiction book of 1998. Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994.