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The promise : President Obama, year one / Jonathan Alter

By:

Alter, Jonathan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster , c2010.Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: xviii, 458 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

9781439101193

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

973.932 ALT

LOC classification:

E907 .A45 2010

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	973.932 ALT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		067312

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-446) and index.

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.

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