The promise President Obama, year one
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781439101193
- ISBN: 1439101191
- ISBN: 9781439101209
- ISBN: 1439101205
- ISBN: 9781439154083 (ebook)
- ISBN: 1439154082 (ebook)
- Physical Description: xviii, 458 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2010.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | n-us--- Obama, Barack United States Politics and government 2009- Obama, Barack Friends and associates Presidents United States Biography |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Homer Public Library | B OBAMA (Text) | 000091520 | Biography | Available | - |
