Renegade: The Making of Barak Obama

Renegade: The Making of Barak Obama

by RichardWolffe (Author)

Synopsis

Barack Obama himself told veteran political reporter Richard Wolffe, You ll get more access than anyone else , and Renegade is his unique story of how a political newcomer with no money and an outsider s name grew into the world s most powerful leader. But it is also a uniquely intimate portrait of the person behind the iconic posters, the man codenamed Renegade by the Secret Service when protecting him. Wolffe portrays an historic candidate and his until now inscrutable character and campaign in untold, stunning detail, from his university lecturer s office in Iowa to the Oval Office in Washington. With unprecedented access, gained over a dozen exclusive interviews with Obama, Wolffe shares with us his front row seat. We fly on the candidate s plane and ride in his bus on an odyssey across a country in crisis; we stand next to him at a bar on the night he secures the nomination; and feel the tension backstage as he delivers his convention speech to a stadium crowd and a transfixed TV audience. ENEGADE is not just an election epic but is also an insightful biography of the new President of the United States.

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Format: Perfect Paperback
Pages: 356
Publisher: Virgin Books
Published: Jun 2009

ISBN 10: 075351978X
ISBN 13: 9780753519783
Book Overview: The first insider s account of Barack Obama s gripping journey from Democrat long shot to the Oval Office.

Author Bio
British born Richard Wolffe was most recently Newsweek's senior White House correspondent. He covered the length of Barack Obama's presidential campaign, travelling with the candidate from his announcement through to Election Day, 21 months later and was granted Obama's first print interview inside the Oval Office. Prior to writing for Newsweek, Wolffe was a senior journalist at the Financial Times, working as its deputy bureau chief and US diplomatic correspondent in Washington, D.C. He is a political analyst for NBC, appears frequently on MSNBC, as well as on international media including the BBC and CBC.