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The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick

…ritten a book that fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama’s life or explores the ambition behind his rise. Those familiar with Obama’s own best-selling memoir or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but now—from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance of unfolding events is without peer—we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh, nuanced and unexpec…

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Just Announced: Biography of President Obama by David Remnick

…mily, friends, teachers, professors, mentors, donors, and rivals of Barack Obama—as well as with the President himself. His sources include not only members of Obama’s team, but also more complicated figures in his story such as the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Bobby Rush, Jesse Jackson, and Bill Ayers. The Bridge also includes correspondence by Obama as well as letters written by the most important influence in his life, his mother, Stanley Ann Dunh…

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Barack Obama and Race: David Remnick and Ta-Nehisi Coates in Conversation

…ommencement of the Civil War, to have a black president? What was it about Obama that allowed him to break this barrier? Is Obama a symbol of how much the country has changed, or is the country changing itself? What separates Obama, historically and personally, from generations of civil-rights leaders and other black politicians? How, as a writer and as a politician, did he go about making his personal story emblematic of the American story? These…

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President Obama on General Grant's Attempted Expulsion of Jewish Americans

…onicled in Jonathan D. Sarna’s When General Grant Expelled the Jews. Watch Obama’s full speech below. “This year, we celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month, and we’re also commemorating an important anniversary. One hundred-fifty years ago, General Ulysses Grant issued an order – known as General Orders Number 11 – that would have expelled Jews, ‘as a class,’ from what was then known as the military Department of the Tennessee. It was wrong. Eve…

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Media Center: ‘Michelle Obama’ by Peter Slevin

Media Center: ‘Michelle Obama’ by Peter Slevin

…ight into the trajectory of her life and career, Slevin shows how Michelle Obama draws strength from the upbringing, which emphasized knowledge, family, and social responsibility.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “Engaging and authoritative. Slevin’s thorough coverage of the first lady’s life to the midterm of Barack’s presidency provides deep understanding of her climb from Southside Chicago to the universities of Princeton and Harvard, all the while searchin…

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President Obama Loves Netherland!

…n interview that aired internationally on the BBC World service, President Obama said the following: Justin Webb: You reading anything at the moment? President Obama: You know, I’m reading a book called Netherland by Joseph O’Neill. Almost finished. Excellent novel. So, what are you waiting for? Buy your copy of Netherland today and find out what all of the hype is about! Then, check out Joseph O’Neill’s events to find out when he’ll be in a city…

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Rave Review from the Times for The Persistence of the Color Line, by Randall Kennedy

…e Color Line” is watching Mr. Kennedy hash through the positions about Mr. Obama staked out by black commentators on the left and right, from Stanley Crouch and Cornel West to Juan Williams and Tavis Smiley.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review Unquestionably, Obama has been in the hot seat since before the beginning of his Presidency. Issues as important as how will he tackle the financial crisis, create jobs, lead our country during a…

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Jeffrey Toobin's The Oath: The Obama White House and the Roberts Supreme Court

…eaching its climax at the court’s contentious decision to uphold President Obama’s signature achievement, the Affordable Care Act. There is no better account of the Supreme Court and its justices’ positions in the politics of the U.S. today. Toobin’s writing is so clear, and his familiarity with his subjects so natural, that you feel as if you know the justices as well as he does. He follows both their biographies and careers with equal enthusiasm…

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President Obama Caught Reading Netherland

In this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, President Obama mentions that he’s reading Netherland by Joseph O’Neill. Earlier this year, Netherland was named winner of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. “New York is not what most people imagine it to be. Just as marriage, family, friendship and manhood are not. Netherland is suspenseful, artful, psychologically pitch-perfect, and a wonderful read. But more than any of that, it’s revelatory. Jo…

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Why Obama Needs a Frances Perkins

…In an op-ed that ran in this weekend’s Washington Post, The Woman Behind the New Deal author Kirstin Downey argues that FDR’s secretary of labor Frances Perkins is just the kind of person who the Obama administration needs. Read why here….

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