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My Presidential Education
Simon & Schuster
January 2015
On Sale: January 6, 2015
224 pages
ISBN: 1476763348
EAN: 9781476763347
Kindle: B00LD1ORAE
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Non-Fiction Biography
Every path to adulthood is strewn with missteps, epiphanies,
and hard-earned lessons. Only Reggie Love’s, however, went
through the White House by way of Duke University’s Cameron
Indoor Stadium. Mentored by both Coach Krzyzewski and
President Obama, Love shares universal insights learned in
unique circumstances, an education in how sports, politics,
and life can define who you are, what you believe in, and
what it takes to make a difference. Power Forward tells the story of the five years Love worked
as a personal assistant to Senator Obama as a candidate for
president, and President Obama, and it is a professional
coming of age story like no other. What the public knows was
well put by Time magazine in 2008: “[Love’s] official duties
don’t come close to capturing Reggie’s close bond with
Obama, who plays a role that is part boss and part big
brother.” What the public doesn’t know are the innumerable private
moments during which that bond was forged and the President
mentored a malleable young man. Accountability and serving with pride and honor were learned
during unsought moments: from co-coaching grade school girls
basketball with the president; lending Obama his tie ahead
of a presidential debate; managing a personal life when no
hour is truly his own; being tasked with getting the
candidate up in the morning on time for long days of
campaigning. From his first interview with Senator Obama, to his
near-decision not to follow the president-elect to the White
House, to eventually bringing LeBron, Melo, D-Wade, and Kobe
to play with the President on his forty-ninth birthday, Love
drew on Coach K’s teachings as he learned to navigate
Washington. But it was while owning up to losing (briefly) the
President’s briefcase, figuring out how to compete
effectively in pick-up games in New Hampshire during the
primary to secure support and votes, babysitting the
children of visiting heads of state, and keeping the
President company at every major turning point of his
historic first campaign and administration, that Love
learned how persistence and passion can lead not only to
success, but to a broader concept of responsibility.
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