The promise : President Obama, year one /

Jonathan Alter, one of the country's most respected journalists and historians, uses his unique access to the White House to produce the first inside look at Obama's difficult debut. In Alter's telling, the real Obama is an authentic, demanding, unsentimental, and sometimes overconfid...

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Main Author: Alter, Jonathan.
Format: Book
Language: English
Call Number: E907 .A45 2010
Institution: Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Negeri Perak
Library: Main Library
Record Id / ISBN-0: ppap.52625 / 9781439101193
Online Public Access Catalog: Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Negeri Perak
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2010.
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Subjects:
Obama, Barack.
Obama, Barack > Friends and associates.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 2009-
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Table of Contents:
  • Obama takes charge
  • White House-in-waiting
  • Grant Park
  • The Cabinet maker
  • Picking Hillary
  • Instant President
  • Historic inauguration
  • Sea legs
  • Zen temperament
  • Rahmbo
  • The shovel brigade
  • Larry and Tim
  • The un-Bubba
  • The global reset
  • Tyrannosaurus Rx
  • Professor-in-chief
  • Off-hours
  • The skinny guy and the fat cats
  • Modus Obama
  • "Don't blow it!"
  • Chaos-istan
  • The perfect and the good
  • Epilogue.

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