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Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads

and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack Obama: a man

wrestling with the momentous decision to run for the presidency,

feeling torn about leaving behind a young family, and figuring out

how to win the biggest prize in politics.

This book is the previously untold and epic story of how a

political newcomer with no money and an alien name grew into the

world’s most powerful leader. But it is also a uniquely intimate

portrait of the person behind the iconic posters and the Secret

Service code name Renegade.

Drawing on a dozen unplugged interviews with the candidate and

president, as well as twenty-one months covering his campaign as it

traveled from coast to coast, Richard Wolffe answers the simple yet

enduring question about Barack Obama: Who is he?

Based on Wolffe’s unprecedented access to Obama, Renegade

reveals the making of a president, both on the campaign trail and

before he ran for high office. It explains how the politician who

emerged in an extraordinary election learned the personal and

political skills to succeed during his youth and early career. With

cool self-discipline, calculated risk taking, and simple

storytelling, Obama developed the strategies he would need to

survive the onslaught of the Clintons and John McCain, and build a

multimillion-dollar machine to win a historic contest.

In Renegade, Richard Wolffe shares with us his front-row

seat at Obama’s announcement to run for president on a frigid day

in Springfield, and his victory speech on a warm night in Chicago.

We fly on the candidate’s plane and ride in his bus on an odyssey

across a country in crisis; stand next to him at a bar on the night

he secures the nomination; and are backstage as he delivers his

convention speech to a stadium crowd and a transfixed national

audience. From a teacher’s office in Iowa to the Oval Office in

Washington, we see and hear Barack Obama with an immediacy and

honesty never witnessed before.

Renegade provides not only an account of Obama’s triumphs,

but also examines his many personal and political trials. We see

Obama wrestling with race and politics, as well as his former

pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright. We see him struggling with life as

a presidential candidate, a campaign that falters for most of its

first year, and his reaction to a surprise defeat in the New

Hampshire primary. And we see him relying on his personal

experience, as well as meticulous polling, to pass the presidential

test in foreign and economic affairs.

Renegade is an essential guide to understanding President

Barack Obama and his trusted inner circle of aides and friends. It

is also a riveting and enlightening first draft of history and

political psychology.

From the Hardcover edition.

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RICHARD WOLFFE is an award-winning journalist and political

analyst for MSNBC television, appearing frequently on MSNBC’s

Countdown with Keith Olbermann, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and

Hardball. He covered the entire length of Barack Obama’s

presidential campaign for Newsweek magazine. Before

Newsweek, Wolffe was a senior journalist at the Financial

Times, serving as its deputy bureau chief and U.S. diplomatic

correspondent. He lives with his wife and their three children in

Washington, D.C.

From the Hardcover edition.

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编辑推荐

“The first of the President Obama books–and a good

one–insightful, thorough, and straight.”

—Ben Bradlee, Washington Post

“If you really want to know what happened inside the Obama

campaign, this is the one book that will take you there. My jaw

dropped time and time again reading details that, despite the

coverage, were never revealed in the long campaign. A clear-eyed,

up-close look at the campaign, Renegade is the one Obama

book that should not be missed.”

—Michele Norris, All Things Considered

“A superb achievement. With an almost painterly eye, compelling

insights, and extraordinary access to Barack Obama and his inner

circle, Richard Wolffe’s Renegade tells the hidden, dramatic

story of the 2008 campaign and also reveals much we did not know

about the 44th president’s life before politics. Wolffe’s brisk,

well-written narrative is fully in the tradition of Theodore White

and Richard Ben Cramer, capturing a pivotal presidential contest

dominated by one of the most luminous figures in modern American

history.”

—Michael Beschloss, author of Presidential Courage

“Many journalists covered the 2008 presidential campaign for

newsrooms and blogvilles. Not the intrepid Richard Wolffe. With

gumshoe persistence he tracked Barack Obama’s historic march to

victory with grace and cunning. Renegade offers a deft mix of

biography, personal reflection, British wit, and old-style

journalism. Destined to be a classic in its genre.”

—Douglas Brinkley, professor of history, Rice University

“Politics is a lot like basketball–complete with drives up the

middle, clutch rebounding, and smart head fakes. In Renegade,

Richard Wolffe takes us inside the game through unparalleled access

to candidate-turned-president Obama and through his own canny eye

and wit. I learned something new on practically every page.”

—Gwen Ifill, Washington Week in Review and The NewsHour with Jim

Lehrer

“This is an insightful, unusually moving, fully observed portrait

of the improbable candidate and complicated man who would be

president, a riveting backstage drama set just at the moment

America’s third act prepared to debut. If Jefferson started the

exalted but flawed exercise and Lincoln enlarged it, then with

Richard Wolffe’s wonderful book–graced as it is with a journalist’s

eye and a historian’s breadth and command–we are granted the gift

of access to the second skinny lawyer from Illinois who would save

our country. Marvelous.”

—Ken Burns, award-winning filmmaker