TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - The bridge :the life and rise of Barack Obama /
DA  - 2010.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Remnick, David.
ET  - 1st ed.
CN  - E908
CN  - E908
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2010.
N1  - "This is a Boorzoi book"--T.p. verso.
ID  - 342024
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Presidential candidates
KW  - African American politicians
KW  - African American legislators
KW  - Legislators
SN  - 9781400043606
SN  - 1400043603
TI  - The bridge :the life and rise of Barack Obama /
ER  -