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The promise : President Obama, year one / Jonathan Alter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alter, Jonathan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obama, Barack.
- Friends and associates.
- United States--Politics and government--2009-.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- Obama, Barack--Friends and associates.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 458 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2010.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439101193
- 1439101191
- 9781439154083
- 1439154082
- 9781439101209
- 1439101205
- OCLC:
- 517275024
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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