The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama - Softcover

Remnick, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330519980 ISBN 13: 9780330519984

Verlag: Picador, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

The editor of the "New Yorker" and bestselling author of "King of the World" turns his attention to Barack Obama and a defining moment in American history. 'I'm here because somebody marched. I'm here because you all sacrificed for me. I stand on the shoulders of giants. I thank the Moses generation; but we've got to remember, now, that Joshua still had a job to do...There are still battles that need to be fought; some rivers that need to be crossed...The previous generation, the Moses generation, pointed the way. They took us 90 per cent of the way there. We still got that 10 per cent in order to cross over to the other side. So the question, I guess, that I have today is what's called of us in this Joshua generation? What do we do in order to fulfill that legacy; to fulfill the obligations and the debt that we owe to those who allowed us to be here today?' - (From Obama's speech in Selma, Alabama in March of 2007). This book, Remnick's first full length work of non-fiction since the bestselling "King of the World", will tell the story of race in the history of America through the prism of the country's first mixed-race president; a man elected against the odds, symbol of hope for many, inheritor of a nation in the throes of a catastrophic crisis of identity.

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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 is the author of seven books, including Holding the Note, King of the World, a biography of Muhammad Ali, and The Bridge, a biography of Barack Obama. He lives in New York City with his wife and children.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0330519980
• ISBN 13: 9780330519984
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 656
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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