To Obama
A People's History
1st Edition
Published on 18. September 2018
416 pages
978-1-4088-9454-5 (ISBN)
Description
One of the most important politics books of the year, To Obama is a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy.
'The real story of Obama's America' Sunday Times
Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from ordinary American citizens. Every night, he read ten of them before going to bed.
In To Obama, Jeanne Marie Laskas interviews President Obama, the letter-writers themselves and the White House staff in the Office of Presidential Correspondence who were witness to the millions of pleas, rants, thank-yous and apologies that landed in the mailroom during the Obama years. At once desperate, joyful, hateful and despairing, they form an intimate portrait of one man's relationship with the American people, and of a time when empathy intersected with politics in the White House.
'The real story of Obama's America' Sunday Times
Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from ordinary American citizens. Every night, he read ten of them before going to bed.
In To Obama, Jeanne Marie Laskas interviews President Obama, the letter-writers themselves and the White House staff in the Office of Presidential Correspondence who were witness to the millions of pleas, rants, thank-yous and apologies that landed in the mailroom during the Obama years. At once desperate, joyful, hateful and despairing, they form an intimate portrait of one man's relationship with the American people, and of a time when empathy intersected with politics in the White House.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-9454-5 (9781408894545)
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Person
Jeanne Marie Laskas is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestseller Concussion. She is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, a correspondent at GQ and a two-time National Magazine Award finalist. Her stories have also appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic and Esquire. She lives in Pennsylvania.
jeannemarielaskas.com / @jmlaskas
jeannemarielaskas.com / @jmlaskas
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Samples, 2008-2009
- Chapter 1: The Letters
- Chapter 2: Bobby Ingram, Oxford, Mississippi
- Samples, 2009-2010
- Chapter 3: The Mailroom
- Chapter 4: Thomas and JoAnn Meehan, Toms River, New Jersey
- Chapter 5: The Idea
- Samples, 2010-2012
- Chapter 6: Bill Oliver, Undisclosed Location
- Chapter 7: Fiona Picks the 10LADs
- Chapter 8: Marnie Hazelton, Freeport, New York
- Samples, 2013-2014
- Chapter 9: Barack Obama, The White House
- Chapter 10: Marjorie McKinney, Boone, North Carolina
- Chapter 11: Red Dot
- Samples, 2015
- Chapter 12: Friends of the Mail
- Chapter 13: Shane Darby, Killen, Alabama
- Samples, 2015-2016
- Chapter 14: The Writing Team
- Chapter 15: Donna Coltharp and Billy Ennis, El Paso, Texas
- Chapter 16: Election Day
- Samples, 2016
- Chapter 17: Vicki Shearer, Renton, Washington
- Chapter 18: Obama in Jeans
- Samples, 2016-2017
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- eCopyright
