The Bridge - The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

The publishing event of the year. Informationen zum Autor David Remnick has been the editor of the New Yorker since 1998. He was a staff writer for the magazine from 1992 to 1998 and, previous to that, the Washington Post’s correspondent in the Soviet Union. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire . He lives in New York City with his wife and children. Klappentext From the 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.From the 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. Zusammenfassung From the 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.

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Speaking to hundreds of friends and colleagues, Remnick investigates and corrects Obama's own account of his life with an assured and elegant tone that clarifies rather than accuses or unmasks . . . 600 masterly pages. ***** Daily Telegraph

Product details

• Authors: David Remnick
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.01.2011
• EAN: 9780330509961
• ISBN: 978-0-330-50996-1
• No. of pages: 660
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book; Biographien (div.), Obama, Barack, Illinois, North America, Memoirs, Social & cultural history, political, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Elections & referenda, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General, Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, United States / 21st Century