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A review by pierceinverarity
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick
4.0
This a solid, substantial biography of Barack Obama. Remnick does a good job of covering BHO from his youth to his ascendance to the Oval Office.
While most of the text is fairly standard biography, Remnick has several stellar segments on the civil rights movement that beautifully contextualize the Obama presidency. I was particularly stunned, towards the end of the book, how he laid out the African American workers who built the White House.
If you are steeped in 2008 campaign bios (as I am) there will be a lot of repetition. But the 200 pages of novelty may be something of a revelation.
Call me a sucker, but I can't help but believe that BHO is the greatest progressive force since FDR.
While most of the text is fairly standard biography, Remnick has several stellar segments on the civil rights movement that beautifully contextualize the Obama presidency. I was particularly stunned, towards the end of the book, how he laid out the African American workers who built the White House.
If you are steeped in 2008 campaign bios (as I am) there will be a lot of repetition. But the 200 pages of novelty may be something of a revelation.
Call me a sucker, but I can't help but believe that BHO is the greatest progressive force since FDR.