The bridge : the life and rise of Barack Obama / David Remnick.
Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick demonstrates how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, then as a Harvard Law School graduate, and finally as President of the United States. "By looking at Obama's political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of ... heroes of the civil rights movement who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorties of a new generation of African-American leaders. The Bridge revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obama's quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives." -- from publisher description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400043606
- ISBN: 1400043603
- Physical Description: x, 656 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 617-623) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- The Joshua generation -- A complex fate -- Surface and undertow -- Nobody knows my name -- Black metropolis -- Ambition -- A narrative of ascent -- Somebody nobody sent -- Black enough -- The wilderness campaign -- Reconstruction -- A righteous wind -- A slight madness -- The sleeping giant -- In the racial funhouse -- The book of Jeremiah -- "How long? Not long" -- To the White House.
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 9.7 49 137223.
Search for related items by subject
- Subject:
- Obama, Barack.
United States. Congress. Senate > Biography.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
Presidential candidates > United States > Biography.
African American politicians > Illinois > Chicago > Biography.
African American legislators > Illinois > Biography.
Legislators > United States > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009.
Illinois > Politics and government > 1951- - Genre:
- Biographies.
Available copies
- 25 of 26 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library. (Show)
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- 0 current holds with 26 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | BIO OBA (Text) | 37810434850953 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Canton Library | B Obama (Text) | 33115006738998 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Cleveland County Main Library | B OBAMA (Text) | 22281500099215 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Eden Library | B Obama (Text) | 31554008993189 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Fairmont Public Library | B OBAMA (Text) | 34510610426817 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| George H. & Laura E. Brown Library | B Oba (Text) | 30308100888008 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Goldsboro Library | B OBAMA (Text) | 900000000038951 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Hampton B. Allen Library | B OBAMA (Text) | 18198000435950 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| J.C. Holliday Library | B Obama (Text) | 810191000812752 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Jacksonville Main Library | BIO OBAMA (Text) | 36015000622791 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
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Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick demonstrates how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, then as a Harvard Law School graduate, and finally as President of the United States. "By looking at Obama's political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of ... heroes of the civil rights movement who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorties of a new generation of African-American leaders. The Bridge revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obama's quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives." -- from publisher description.
