奥巴马:诺言筑就权利Obama: From Promise to Power

分類: 图书,进口原版书,传记 Biographies & Memoirs ,
作者: David Mendell著
出 版 社: 音像供货
出版时间: 2008-9-1字数:版次: 1页数: 406印刷时间: 2008/09/01开本: 32开印次: 1纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9780061736667包装: 平装内容简介
*Starred Review* Since his speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, Obama has captured attention as reporters, politicos, and ordinary citizens have wondered if he might be the nation's first black president. Chicago Tribune reporter Mendell argues that although Obama's rise to the national stage might seem unplanned, it is the outcome of a carefully calculated strategy by an ambitious man. Mendell chronicles Obama's personal evolution, from Barry, a biracial adolescent growing up in Hawaii, to Barack, the Harvard law school graduate. Obama's complex background—white midwestern mother and Kenyan father—has been both an asset and a liability to his search for acceptance among African Americans and voters in general as they have had to assess who he is and what he stands for. Mendell tracks Obama's rise through the frustrations of community organizing and the rough-and-tumble world of Chicago politics to the rarefied, if no less brutal, world of the U.S. Senate. Mendell draws on interviews with Obama, his wife, family, friends, aides, and rivals, as well as his own extensive coverage since Obama's days in the Illinois Senate, to offer a nuanced, compelling look at a man of idealism and ambition intent on making history. Bush, Vanessa --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
目录
Acknowledgments
1 TheAscent
2 Dreams from His Mother
3 JustCallMeBarry
4 The Mainland
5 The Organizer
6 Harvard
7 Sweet Home Chicago
8 Politics
9 The Legislator
10 The New Rochelle Train
11 The Candidate
12 The Consultant
13 The Race Factor
14 TheRealDeal
15 Hull on Wheels
16 The Small Screen
17 AVictoryLap
18 ADashtotheCenter
19 Thegyan Files
20 The Speech
21 Back tO Illinois
22 The Senator
23 South Africa
24 Nairobi
25 Siaya:A Father's Home
26 LeBron Revisited
Notes