The promise : President Obama, year one
Alter, Jonathan
The promise : President Obama, year one / Jonathan Alter - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition - New York : Simon & Schuster , c2010. - xviii, 458 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-446) and index.
Obama takes charge -- White House-in-waiting -- Grant Park -- The Cabinet maker -- Picking Hillary -- Instant President -- Historic inauguration -- Sea legs -- Zen temperament -- Rahmbo -- The shovel brigade -- Larry and Tim -- The un-Bubba -- The global reset -- Tyrannosaurus Rx -- Professor-in-chief -- Off-hours -- The skinny guy and the fat cats -- Modus Obama -- "Don't blow it!" -- Chaos-istan -- The perfect and the good -- Epilogue.
Jonathan Alter, one of the country's most respected journalists and historians, uses his unique access to the White House to produce the first inside look at Obama's difficult debut. In Alter's telling, the real Obama is an authentic, demanding, unsentimental, and sometimes overconfident leader.
9781439101193
2010020438
Obama, Barack
Presidents---United States----Biography
United States----Politics and government----2009-
E907 / .A45 2010
973.932 ALT
The promise : President Obama, year one / Jonathan Alter - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition - New York : Simon & Schuster , c2010. - xviii, 458 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-446) and index.
Obama takes charge -- White House-in-waiting -- Grant Park -- The Cabinet maker -- Picking Hillary -- Instant President -- Historic inauguration -- Sea legs -- Zen temperament -- Rahmbo -- The shovel brigade -- Larry and Tim -- The un-Bubba -- The global reset -- Tyrannosaurus Rx -- Professor-in-chief -- Off-hours -- The skinny guy and the fat cats -- Modus Obama -- "Don't blow it!" -- Chaos-istan -- The perfect and the good -- Epilogue.
Jonathan Alter, one of the country's most respected journalists and historians, uses his unique access to the White House to produce the first inside look at Obama's difficult debut. In Alter's telling, the real Obama is an authentic, demanding, unsentimental, and sometimes overconfident leader.
9781439101193
2010020438
Obama, Barack
Presidents---United States----Biography
United States----Politics and government----2009-
E907 / .A45 2010
973.932 ALT
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