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Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack Obama: a man wrestling with the momentous decision to run for the presidency, feeling torn about leaving behind a young family, and figuring out how to win the biggest prize in politics. This book is the previously untold and epic story of how a political newcomer with no money and an alien name grew into the world's most powerful leader. But it is also a uniquely intimate portrait of the person behind the iconic posters and the Secret Service code name Renegade. Drawing on a dozen unplugged interviews with the candidate and president, as well as twenty-one months covering his campaign as it traveled from coast to coast, Richard Wolffe answers the simple yet enduring question about Barack Obama: Who is he? Based on Wolffe's unprecedented access to Obama, Renegade reveals the making of a president, both on the campaign trail and before he ran for high office. It explains how the politician who emerged in an extraordinary election learned the personal and political skills to succeed during his youth and early career. With cool self-discipline, calculated risk taking, and simple storytelling, Obama developed the strategies he would need to survive the onslaught of the Clintons and John McCain, and build a multimillion-dollar machine to win a historic contest. In Renegade , Richard Wolffe shares with us his front-row seat at Obama's announcement to run for president on a frigid day in Springfield, and his victory speech on a warm night in Chicago. We fly on the candidate's plane and ride in his bus on an odyssey across a country in crisis; stand next to him at a bar on the night he secures the nomination; and are backstage as he delivers his convention speech to a stadium crowd and a transfixed national audience. From a teacher's office in Iowa to the Oval Office in Washington, we see and hear Barack Obama with an immediacy and honesty never witnessed before. Renegade provides not only an account of Obama's triumphs, but also examines his many personal and political trials. We see Obama wrestling with race and politics, as well as his former pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright. We see him struggling with life as a presidential candidate, a campaign that falters for most of its first year, and his reaction to a surprise defeat in the New Hampshire primary. And we see him relying on his personal experience, as well as meticulous polling, to pass the presidential test in foreign and economic affairs. Renegade is an essential guide to understanding President Barack Obama and his trusted inner circle of aides and friends. It is also a riveting and enlightening first draft of history and political psychology. From the Hardcover edition.

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Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0307463125
ISBN-13
9780307463128
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71717185

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Book Title
Renegade : the Making of a President
Author
Richard Wolffe
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, General, Presidents & Heads of State, Political, American Government / General
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Political Science
Number of Pages
368 Pages

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Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
20 oz

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Lc Classification Number
E908 .W65 2009
Reviews
"The first of the President Obama booksand a good oneinsightful, thorough, and straight." Ben Bradlee, Washington Post "If you really want to know what happened inside the Obama campaign, this is the one book that will take you there. My jaw dropped time and time again reading details that, despite the coverage, were never revealed in the long campaign. A clear-eyed, up-close look at the campaign, Renegade is the one Obama book that should not be missed." Michele Norris, All Things Considered "A superb achievement. With an almost painterly eye, compelling insights, and extraordinary access to Barack Obama and his inner circle, Richard Wolffe's Renegade tells the hidden, dramatic story of the 2008 campaign and also reveals much we did not know about the 44th president's life before politics. Wolffe's brisk, well-written narrative is fully in the tradition of Theodore White and Richard Ben Cramer, capturing a pivotal presidential contest dominated by one of the most luminous figures in modern American history." Michael Beschloss, author of Presidential Courage "Many journalists covered the 2008 presidential campaign for newsrooms and blogvilles. Not the intrepid Richard Wolffe. With gumshoe persistence he tracked Barack Obama's historic march to victory with grace and cunning. Renegade offers a deft mix of biography, personal reflection, British wit, and old-style journalism. Destined to be a classic in its genre." Douglas Brinkley, professor of history, Rice University "Politics is a lot like basketballcomplete with drives up the middle, clutch rebounding, and smart head fakes. In Renegade, Richard Wolffe takes us inside the game through unparalleled access to candidate-turned-president Obama and through his own canny eye and wit. I learned something new on practically every page." Gwen Ifill, Washington Week in Review and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer "This is an insightful, unusually moving, fully observed portrait of the improbable candidate and complicated man who would be president, a riveting backstage drama set just at the moment America's third act prepared to debut. If Jefferson started the exalted but flawed exercise and Lincoln enlarged it, then with Richard Wolffe's wonderful bookgraced as it is with a journalist's eye and a historian's breadth and commandwe are granted the gift of access to the second skinny lawyer from Illinois who would save our country. Marvelous." Ken Burns, award-winning filmmaker From the Hardcover edition.
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2009-293965
Dewey Decimal
973.932092 B
Dewey Edition
22

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by catsmagickJul 02, 2009
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Excellent book by Richard Wolffe, who followed President Obama when he was Senator Obama on the presidential campaign trail. Richard Wolffe's style of writing is marvelous - this is not a stuffy or hard to read book. It reads much like a novel and is filled with facts that are verifiable (sources are included in the back)as well as campaign trail anecdotes. A great read for both history buffs and those who want to know a little more about our 44th President and First Lady.
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by ihavemdsJun 19, 2009
Basketball metaphors and Barack Obama
As Michiko Kakutani wrote in The New York Times, Wolffe depicts Barack Obama “as a clutch player, who, like Michael Jordan, lives for Game 7 of the finals. He likes getting into his opponents’ heads (though without talking a lot of trash), thinks of himself, in Mr. Wolffe’s words, as ‘a playmaker’ who can ‘direct the game and outsmart his opponents,’ and he knows how to raise his game when it counts.” When it comes to the media, Obama seems to reach for less-extended metaphors, likening the intense scrutiny to “a public colonoscopy.”
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by southerncomfort...Feb 05, 2010
Good Read.
Like so many others, I was captivated with the 2008 Presidential campaign. Barack Obama was my favorite candidate and I love Richard Wolffe. This book was quite an interesting read, not a 'gotcha' type, though if you are looking for Richard to drop the dirt on the opponents!

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