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The Promise

President Obama, Year One

by Jonathan Alter

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Jonathan 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.

Politics and governmentFriends and associatesPresidentsBiographynyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2010-06-06New York Times bestsellerObama, barack, 1961-United states, politics and government, 2009-2017Government executivesPolitical leadership