The Bridge: The life and rise of Barack Obama

Resumen del libro

From the New Yorker editor and bestselling author of King of the World, the first ever biography of President Obama -- updated in paperback to cover his first two years in Office

The rise of Barack Obama is one of the great stories of this century: a defining moment for America, and one with truly global resonance. This is the book of his phenomenal journey to election.

Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick has put together a nuanced, unexpected and masterly portrait of the man who was determined to become the first African-American President.

Most importantly, The Bridge argues that Obama imagined and fashioned an identity for himself against the epic drama of race in America. In a way that Obama's own memoirs cannot, it examines both the personal and political elements of the story, and gives shape not only to a decisive period of history, but also to the way it crucially influenced, animated and motivated a gifted and complex man

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B David Remnickx{0026}lt;/B (Estados Unidos, 1958) es periodista y escritor. Tras una larga etapa en el x{0026}lt;I Washington Postx{0026}lt;/I , donde entre otras cosas fue corresponsal en Moscú, fue nombrado director del x{0026}lt;I New Yorkerx{0026}lt;/I en 1998. En 1999 fue elegido Director del año. También ha obtenido el premio George Polk a la excelencia periodística y un National Magazine Award. Su libro x{0026}lt;I La tumba de Lenin. Los últimos días del Imperio soviéticox{0026}lt;/I (Debate, 2011) obtuvo el premio Pulitzer. Además ha publicadosendas biografías de Muhammad Ali, x{0026}lt;I Rey del mundox{0026}lt;/I (Debolsillo, 2010) y de Barack Obama, x{0026}lt;I El puentex{0026}lt;/I (Debate 2010).x{0026}lt;/P