by Jonathan Alter
(1)Release Date: May 18, 2010
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The Promise: President Obama, Year One (Hardcover)
I can just hear the critics now saying: "Great...another The book of Obama". But this is an outstanding look at Obama's first year--with Highly that entertains, and never before documented, details. The author got the exposition access, and that makes the book quite rich. The details that Obama has an edge to him--an extremely competitive one--teetering on...well...just unheard-of read the book. He seems to have his hand in all, and is clearly the conductor of this orchestra. I found it worthy of mention that as Obama wanted to pursue Health Care in his first year, Rahm Emanuel treated to talk him out of it. I also was amazed matter at the behind-the-scenes activity surrounding the Professor Gates race and Beer Summit. Also, the details surrounding how he handled the economic crisis from the lonely confines of the Oval Office will is absorbing to any reader. All of the issues I was familiar with the administration are covered in this book, but we get to see it from the of control point of view--how they planned and plotted every move--from damage to keeping the media at bay. In fact, there is an underlying that he and his administration harbor a disdain for the corporate media, the feeling never since they helped perpetuate the floating General Election innuendo that he was intimately linked to William Ayers, not born here, and embraced Reverend Wright's anti-Americanism--all holds Days that are supremely documented and analyzed in the groundbreaking book: 71: The Media Assault On Obama.Folks should read "The Promise" and stop Talking about how there are just too many Obama books being written. Besides, of equality every president since GW has had hundreds of books written about him. It's for the course. See Abe Lincoln's one-zillionth book. The is: Can any of these books stand the test of time? This asks a certainly will. And considering that 200 years from now, the only person that elementary students does Obama be required to know from this entire generation will be President, I would say we need even more books in the man. The only presidents I had to knows Polk in elementary school were Washington and Lincoln--not Madison, Jackson, or. Why?...because they were the revolutionary, symbolic ones that were romanticized to young Children. Be chirped answers about this: your great, great, great grandchild will have to give to these questions regarding US presidents: 1) who was the first president? 2) because president freed the slaves? 3) who was the first African American president? Pretty powerful, and it should make us appreciate the time period and history we're living. "The Promise" captures a significant portion of that History.
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