The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375702303)

National Bestseller

In this nuanced and complex portrait of Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize-winner David Remnick offers a thorough, intricate, and riveting account of the unique experiences that shaped our nation's first African American president.

Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, Remnick explores the elite institutions that first exposed Obama to social tensions, and the intellectual currents that contributed to his identity. Using America's racial history as a backdrop for Obama's own story, Remnick further reveals how an initially rootless and confused young man built on the experiences of an earlier generation of black leaders to become one of the central figures of our time.

Masterfully written and eminently readable, The Bridge is destined to be a lasting and illuminating work for years to come, by a writer with an unparalleled gift for revealing the historical significance of our present moment.

Author: David Remnick
ISBN-10: 037570230X
ISBN-13: 9780375702303
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 01/11/2011
Pages: 704
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.32w x 1.42d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.7
Point Value: 49
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 137223 / Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 01/16/2011 pg. 20