The promise:President Obama, year one/ Jonathan Alter.
Physical description:
xviii, 458 p. ports 24 cm.;
Bibliographic notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-446) and index.;
Edition:
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.;
Author(s): ALTER, Jonathan.;
ISBN:
9781439101193 (hbk.;
Subjects: Presidents --United States --Biography.;
United States --Politics and government --2009-2017.;
Obama, Barack.;
Obama, Barack --Friends and associates.;
Formatted contents notes:
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 notes:
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.;
Publisher:
New York : Simon & Schuster , c2010.;
Call number: 973.932092 ALT;
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