Description
One of the most important politics books of the year, To Obama is a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy.
About the Author
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
Reviews
Reminiscent of Tom Wolfe at his best ... It may be trite to say that To Obama is itself a love letter, but that's how it reads: like a letter to someone long lost. It is steeped in a powerful yearning for a period in time that slips further from us with every passing day. How did we fall so far? * New Statesman *
A moving and inevitably nostalgic or even elegiac read, redolent of the human grace and statesmanship of the Obama presidency ... A beautifully researched and written book * Observer *
To Obama gives us a glimpse of a secret and incredibly sweet world within his White House, and paints a portrait of a man deeply concerned with his citizens' problems, struggling to do the right thing. [A] startling, delicate and immensely readable story ... Another poignant reminder of what once was * Telegraph *
Full of lovely details ... The insight into America provided by the letters cleverly selected by Laskas is fascinating * Literary Review *
These stories, when you read them all together, tell the American story. It's inspirational, it's frustrating, it's angry, it's grateful, it's resilient -- Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama
Alternately heart-breaking and hopeful, angry and questioning - the empathetic, often poetic, polar opposite of the Trump twitter feed * Vogue *
The heartbreaking, hope-inducing letters tell the story of a nation * Elle *
Book Information
ISBN 9781408894507
Author Jeanne Marie Laskas
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 342g