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001 2010020438
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010 $a 2010020438
020 $a9781439101193
020 $a9781439154083 (ebook)
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050 00 $aE907$b.A45 2010
082 00 $a973.932092$aB$222
100 1 $aAlter, Jonathan.
245 14 $aThe promise :$bPresident Obama, year one /$cJonathan Alter.
250 $a1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$cc2010.
300 $axviii, 458 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [441]-446) and index.
505 0 $aObama 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.
520 $aJonathan 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 overconfident leader.
600 10 $aObama, Barack.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y2009-
600 10 $aObama, Barack$xFriends and associates.
650 0 $aPresidents$zUnited States$vBiography.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1009/2010020438-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1009/2010020438-b.html