The bridge : the life and rise of Barack Obama / David Remnick.
2010
E908 .R46 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
The bridge : the life and rise of Barack Obama / David Remnick.
Author
Remnick, David.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9781400043606
1400043603
1400043603
Imprint
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Language
English
Description
x, 656 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Call Number
E908 .R46 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.932092 B
Summary
Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick demonstrates how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, then as a Harvard Law School graduate, and finally as President of the United States. "By looking at Obama's political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of ... heroes of the civil rights movement who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorties of a new generation of African-American leaders. The Bridge revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obama's quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives." -- from publisher description.
Note
"This is a Boorzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The Joshua generation
A complex fate
Surface and undertow
Nobody knows my name
Black metropolis
Ambition
A narrative of ascent
Somebody nobody sent
Black enough
The wilderness campaign
Reconstruction
A righteous wind
A slight madness
The sleeping giant
In the racial funhouse
The book of Jeremiah
"How long? Not long"
To the White House.
A complex fate
Surface and undertow
Nobody knows my name
Black metropolis
Ambition
A narrative of ascent
Somebody nobody sent
Black enough
The wilderness campaign
Reconstruction
A righteous wind
A slight madness
The sleeping giant
In the racial funhouse
The book of Jeremiah
"How long? Not long"
To the White House.