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The Making Of A President
Crown
June 2009
On Sale: June 2, 2009
368 pages
ISBN: 0307463125
EAN: 9780307463128
Hardcover
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Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads
and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack Obama: a
man wrestling with the momentous decision to run for the
presidency, feeling torn about leaving behind a young
family, and figuring out how to win the biggest prize in
politics.
This book is the previously untold and epic
story of how a political newcomer with no money and an alien
name grew into the world’s most powerful leader. But it is
also a uniquely intimate portrait of the person behind the
iconic posters and the Secret Service code name Renegade.
Drawing on a dozen unplugged interviews with the
candidate and president, as well as twenty-one months
covering his campaign as it traveled from coast to coast,
Richard Wolffe answers the simple yet enduring question
about Barack Obama: Who is he?
Based on Wolffe’s
unprecedented access to Obama, Renegade reveals the
making of a president, both on the campaign trail and before
he ran for high office. It explains how the politician who
emerged in an extraordinary election learned the personal
and political skills to succeed during his youth and early
career. With cool self-discipline, calculated risk taking,
and simple storytelling, Obama developed the strategies he
would need to survive the onslaught of the Clintons and John
McCain, and build a multimillion-dollar machine to win a
historic contest.
In Renegade, Richard Wolffe
shares with us his front-row seat at Obama’s announcement to
run for president on a frigid day in Springfield, and his
victory speech on a warm night in Chicago. We fly on the
candidate’s plane and ride in his bus on an odyssey across a
country in crisis; stand next to him at a bar on the night
he secures the nomination; and are backstage as he delivers
his convention speech to a stadium crowd and a transfixed
national audience. From a teacher’s office in Iowa to the
Oval Office in Washington, we see and hear Barack Obama with
an immediacy and honesty never witnessed before.
Renegade provides not only an account of
Obama’s triumphs, but also examines his many personal and
political trials. We see Obama wrestling with race and
politics, as well as his former pastor Reverend Jeremiah
Wright. We see him struggling with life as a presidential
candidate, a campaign that falters for most of its first
year, and his reaction to a surprise defeat in the New
Hampshire primary. And we see him relying on his personal
experience, as well as meticulous polling, to pass the
presidential test in foreign and economic affairs.
Renegade is an essential guide to understanding
President Barack Obama and his trusted inner circle of aides
and friends. It is also a riveting and enlightening first
draft of history and political psychology.
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