| Edition |
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. |
| Description |
xviii, 458 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Obama, Barack.
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Obama, Barack. |
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017.
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Obama, Barack -- Friends and associates.
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Friends and associates. |
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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Presidents. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Issued also in ebook format 9781439154083 1439154082 |
| ISBN |
9781439101193 |
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1439101191 |
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9781439101209 |
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1439101205 |
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9781439154083 ebook |
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1439154082 ebook |
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