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Obama and His Enemies
Simon & Schuster
June 2013
On Sale: June 4, 2013
450 pages ISBN: 1451646070 EAN: 9781451646078 Kindle: B008J4I7MM Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Political
From the bestselling author of The Promise, the
thrilling story of one of the most momentous contests in
American history, the Battle Royale between Obama and his
enemies from the 2010 midterms through the 2013
inauguration. The election of 2012 will be
remembered as a hinge of history. With huge victories in the
2010 midterm elections the Republican Party had blocked
President Obama at every turn and made plans to wrench the
country sharply to the right. 2012 offered the GOP a clear
shot at controlling all three branches of government and
repealing much of the social contract dating back to the New
Deal. Facing free-spending billionaires, Fox News, and a
concerted effort in 19 states to tilt the election by
suppressing Democratic votes, Obama repelled the assault and
navigated the nation back to the center. In
The Center Holds, Jonathan Alter produces the first
full account of America at the crossroads. With exclusive
reporting and rare historical insight, he pierces the bubble
of the White House and the presidential campaigns in a
landmark election that marked the return of big money and
the rise of big data. He tells the epic story of an
embattled president fighting back with the first campaign of
the Digital Age. Alter relates the untold
story behind Obama’s highs and lows, from the raid on Osama
bin Laden’s compound to the frustration of the debt ceiling
fiasco to his unexpected run-ins with black and Latino
activists. There are fresh details about the Koch brothers,
Grover Norquist, Roger Ailes, and the online haters who
suffer from “Obama Derangement Syndrome.” Alter takes us
inside Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s Boston campaign as well
as Obama’s disastrous preparation for the first debate. We
meet Obama’s analytics geeks working out of “The Cave” and
the man who secretly videotaped Romney’s infamous comments
on the “47 percent.” The Center Holds
will deepen our understanding of the Obama presidency, the
stakes of the 2012 election, and the future of the country.
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