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Released: June 1, 1995
"At its best, despite an occasional lack of analysis, this affecting study of self-definition perceptively reminds us that the dilemmas of race generally express themselves in terms of individual human struggles."
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Released: Jan. 27, 2009
"An alert, thoroughly readable assessment of a candidacy that seemed unlikely only to those who weren't paying attention."
The editor-in-chief of the NAACP's
The Crisis magazine conducts a celebratory
tour d'horizon of the cultural and political developments that paved the way for Barack Obama's rise.
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Released: Nov. 2, 2009
"The perfect book with which to recall and appreciate the significance of Obama's journey to the White House."
A collection of astute articles penned as longtime
New Yorker writer Hertzberg (
Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966–2004, 2004, etc.) watched Barack Obama's historic presidential campaign.
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Released: April 6, 2010
"Remnick's fluent writing makes this expansive, significant book move along swiftly. Readers will look forward to the sequel, eight years from now."
From
New Yorker editor Remnick (
Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker, 2006, etc.), a world-ranging, eye-opening, comprehensive life to date of the 44th President of the United States
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Released: May 18, 2010
"Politics junkies will find this rewarding, particularly in Alter's account of the inner workings of the White House and Capitol Hill."
Newsweek senior editor Alter (
The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, 2006, etc.) turns in a freshman-year report card for the sitting president, with mixed but generally good grades.
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Released: June 1, 2010
"A rich, provocative meditation on the importance of Obama's election."
"What does it mean to live in a country where 64 million people voted to make a black man a president?" asks Cobb (History/Spelman Coll.;
To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic, 2007, etc.).
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