@article{342024,
      recid = {342024},
      author = {Remnick, David.},
      title = {The bridge : the life and rise of Barack Obama /},
      publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {x, 656 p., [16] p. of plates :},
      year = {2010},
      note = {"This is a Boorzoi book"--T.p. verso.},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/342024},
}