BRIDGE, THE(ISBN=9780375702303)

In this nuanced and complex portrait of Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize-winner David Remnick offers a thorough, intricate, and riveting account of the unique experiences that shaped our nation’s first African American president.
 
Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, Remnick explores the elite institutions that first exposed Obama to social tensions, and the intellectual currents that contributed to his identity. Using America’s racial history as a backdrop for Obama’s own story, Remnick further reveals how an initially rootless and confused young man built on the experiences of an earlier generation of black leaders to become one of the central figures of our time.
 
Masterfully written and eminently readable, The Bridge is destined to be a lasting and illuminating work for years to come, by a writer with an unparalleled gift for revealing the historical significance of our present moment.

David Remnick was a reporter for The Washington Post for ten years, including four in Moscow. He joined The New Yorker as a writer in 1992 and has been the magazine’s editor since 1998. His last book was King of the World, a biography of Muhammad Ali, which was selected by Time as the top nonfiction book of 1998. Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994.

Prologue: The Joshua Generation
Part One
1.A Complex Fate   
2.Surface and Undertow   
3.Nobody Knows My Name   
Part Two
4.Black Metropolis 
5.Ambition  
6.A Narrative of Ascent  
Part Three
7.Somebody Nobody Sent   
8.Black Enough   
9.The Wilderness Campaign  
10.Reconstruction   
11.A Righteous Wind  
Part Four
12.A Slight Madness 
13.The Sleeping Giant   
14.In the Racial Funhouse 
15.The Book of Jermniah  
Part Five
16.How Long? Not Long
17.To the White House
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