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Documenting the Obama Presidency in Real Time
Times Books
September 2012
On Sale: August 21, 2012
320 pages
ISBN: 0805095721
EAN: 9780805095722
Kindle: B00779MV5E
Hardcover / e-Book
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The first official White House videographer chronicles his
time capturing behind-the-scenes moments of the president
and his administration From the early months of the 2008 campaign and through the
first two and a half years of the Obama administration, Arun
Chaudhary had a unique perspective on the president of the
United States. "I'm sort of like President Obama's wedding
videographer," he explains, "if every day was a wedding with
the same groom but a constantly rotating set of hysterical
guests." Some of the moments Chaudhary captures are small, like the
president throwing warm-up pitches deep inside Busch Stadium
in St. Louis before the All-Star game. Some are intensely
emotional, as when Obama comforts a grieving teenager whose
father had died in a devastating tornado. And some are just
plain bizarre—like getting thrown out of the Indian
parliament by his belt, or being trapped in a White House
bathroom while Obama conducts a YouTube town hall on the
other side of the door. Film and politics have been intertwined ever since the first
Edison reels rattled in projection halls a century ago. But
with the advent of new technologies and a new public that is
hungry for images of their leaders, Chaudhary has been in
the right place at the right time to participate in the
interplay of film and politics at the very highest level.
His entertaining and eye-opening book—which includes stories
and images of key players such as Barack and Michelle Obama,
Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton, among others—gives readers a
unique view of their government and their president in these
historic and challenging times.
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