The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House
- ISBN-10
- 0316234869
- ISBN-13
- 9780316234863
- Series
- The Stranger
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 528
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-11-11
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Author
- Chuck Todd
Description
Chuck Todd's gripping, fly-on-the-wall account of Barack Obama's tumultuous struggle to succeed in Washington. Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But if he'd come to the White House thinking he could change the political culture, he soon discovered just how difficult it was to swim against an upstream of insiders, partisans, and old guard networks allied to undermine his agenda---including members of his own party. He would pass some of the most significant legislation in American history, but his own weaknesses torpedoed some of his greatest hopes. In THE STRANGER, Chuck Todd draws upon his unprecedented inner-circle sources to create a gripping account of Obama's White House tenure, from the early days of drift and helplessness to a final stand against the GOP in which an Obama, at last liberated from his political future, finally triumphs.
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