The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
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No tale has been more central to America’s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama’s life or explores the ambition behind his rise. Persons familiar with Obama’s own best-selling memoir or his battle speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but now—from a writer whose gift for illuminating the past significance of unfolding events is lacking peer—we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh, nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself, and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.
The Bridge offers the most perfect account yet of Obama’s tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned his family tree and finished his life as a beaten man; of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia; and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama to the social tensions and intellectual currents that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through wide on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family tree members and Obama himself, David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man made himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would force him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged.
Deftly setting Obama’s political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicago’s history, Remnick shows us how that city’s complex racial legacy would make Obama’s forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous choice to challenge the ex- Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would cut down his more veteran opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the tale—from both sides—of his confrontation with his ex- pastor, Jeremiah Wright. By looking at Obama’s political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery, heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess ancient loyalties and know the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders.
The Bridge revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obama’s quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives.
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Wow, the hype for this guy will not end. Mr Remnick gives us blah blah about his tragic father, plenty of blah blah about Chicago politics, blah blah about the conflicting agendas of African American leaders, over 600 more pages of BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH. This is not what America needs. America needs the truth. Obama is not getting to it at all when it comes to the 9/11 LIE and the continuing wars.(Which he campaigned on stopping and is not) Do you not judge this yet my Obama loving friends ? Google this please; 9/11 Blueprint For Truth open by Architect Richard Gage AIA. Watch his presentation on the obvious Demolitions of the 3 buildings on 9/11. Please do this. You should realize that Obama is continuing the horrible Lie about 9/11. I know people like Glen Beck, O liely, Slant head Hannity, Dingbat Palin, ETC, are absolutely nuts. This 9/11 Lie needs to stop. To me, the fact that 9/11 was an inside job is as obvious as the fact that Chris Matthews has no guts. So please wake up a small my friends who would waste your precious time reading 600 more pages of fluff. Watch the video I suggest and you will realize that we should not worship this president, we should question and press him to really try to get us the truth about 9/11. We must not be sheep. Come on Wakey Wakey.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I am an Indepentent Voter, not a “whining Conservative” and I really didn’t like the book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Kenyan (youtube his own wife’s statement). Community organizer. Socialist. Clueless, yet positioned. Apologist for America, yet lacking a clue about who or what America is. The clear and present danger. Hopeless lacking his teleprompter. Covered up by the liberal media. He is Obama, and he is treacherous. Anything else you say about Obama is just a lie.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
How many more times can they copy and paste the same history over and over again. I learned absolutely nothing that i didn’t already know about him from this book. You should save your money and just google Obama. Nothing new here.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
It is very inspirational to read about the American Draem coming right. Remnick provides an outstanding biography of self-doubt, self-discovery, and personal triumph with an eye permanently towards abetter world and the better angels in all of us. Yes, we can. is the take-away.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5