The Bridge - David Remnick
The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
KORTE INHOUD
No story has been more central to America’s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book thatfully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama’s life or explores the ambition behind his rise.Those familiar with Obama’s own best-selling memoiror his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but now—from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significanceof unfolding events is without peer—we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh,nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself,and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.
The Bridge offers the most complete account yet ofObama’s tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandonedhis family and ended his life as a beaten man;of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia;and of the ...
The Bridge offers the most complete account yet ofObama’s tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandonedhis family and ended his life as a beaten man;of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia;and of the ...
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2010 Uitgever: Alfred A. Knopf 656 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1400043603 ISBN-13: 9781400043606Koop dit boek tweedehands
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