To Obama With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope
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Jeanne Marie Laskas
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- 9780525509387
- 18 september 2018
- 416 pagina's
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Jeanne Marie Laskas is the
New York Times bestselling author of six books including
Hidden America and
Concussion, which inspired the Golden Globe-nominated film
. Formerly a contributing editor at
Esquire, and a syndicated weekly columnist
at
The Washington Post Magazine, she has been writing for national magazines for 20 years, with work appearing in
The New Yorker,
The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine,
Allure, Ladies Home Journal, and many others. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including
Best American Magazine Writing 2008 and
Best American Sportswriting 2000,
2002,
2008, 2010 and
2012. She has won more than a dozen Gold Quill awards for Excellence in Journalism, and her piece about coal mining, “Underworld,” was a finalist in feature writing for the 2007 National Magazine Awards. Her earliest essays and features are compiled in
The Balloon Lady and Other People I Know.
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An insightful study of a president who listened to even his harshest critics with grace and humility.The Washington Post
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY GLAMOUR
Every evening for eight years, at his request, President Obama was given ten handpicked letters written by ordinary American citizensthe unfiltered voice of a nationfrom his Office of Presidential Correspondence. He was the first president to interact daily with constituent mail and to archive it in its entirety. The letters affected not only the president and his policies but also the deeply committed people who were tasked with opening and reading the millions of pleas, rants, thank-yous, and apologies that landed in the White House mailroom.
In To Obama, Jeanne Marie Laskas interviews President Obama, the letter writers themselves, and the White House staff who sifted through the powerful, moving, and incredibly intimate narrative of America during the Obama years: There is Kelli, who saw her grandfathers finally marrylegallyafter thirty-five years together; Bill, a lifelong Republican whose attitude toward immigration reform was transformed when he met a boy escaping MS-13 gang leaders in El Salvador; Heba, a Syrian refugee who wants to forget the day the tanks rolled into her village; Marjorie, who grappled with disturbing feelings of racial bias lurking within her during the George Zimmerman trial; and Vicki, whose family was torn apart by those who voted for Trump and those who did not.
They wrote to Obama out of gratitude and desperation, in their darkest times of need, in search of connection. They wrote with anger, fear, and respect. And together, this chorus of voices achieves a kind of beautiful harmony. To Obama is an intimate look at one mans relationship to the American people, and at a time when empathy intersected with politics in the White House.
Praise for To Obama
I cried several times.Pete Souza
Beautifully researched and written . . . A moving and inevitably nostalgic or even elegiac read, redolent of the human grace and statesmanship of the Obama presidency.The Guardian
These stories, when you read them all together, tell the American story. Theyre inspirational, theyre frustrating, theyre angry, theyre grateful, theyre resilient.Valerie Jarrett
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY GLAMOUR
Every evening for eight years, at his request, President Obama was given ten handpicked letters written by ordinary American citizensthe unfiltered voice of a nationfrom his Office of Presidential Correspondence. He was the first president to interact daily with constituent mail and to archive it in its entirety. The letters affected not only the president and his policies but also the deeply committed people who were tasked with opening and reading the millions of pleas, rants, thank-yous, and apologies that landed in the White House mailroom.
In To Obama, Jeanne Marie Laskas interviews President Obama, the letter writers themselves, and the White House staff who sifted through the powerful, moving, and incredibly intimate narrative of America during the Obama years: There is Kelli, who saw her grandfathers finally marrylegallyafter thirty-five years together; Bill, a lifelong Republican whose attitude toward immigration reform was transformed when he met a boy escaping MS-13 gang leaders in El Salvador; Heba, a Syrian refugee who wants to forget the day the tanks rolled into her village; Marjorie, who grappled with disturbing feelings of racial bias lurking within her during the George Zimmerman trial; and Vicki, whose family was torn apart by those who voted for Trump and those who did not.
They wrote to Obama out of gratitude and desperation, in their darkest times of need, in search of connection. They wrote with anger, fear, and respect. And together, this chorus of voices achieves a kind of beautiful harmony. To Obama is an intimate look at one mans relationship to the American people, and at a time when empathy intersected with politics in the White House.
Praise for To Obama
I cried several times.Pete Souza
Beautifully researched and written . . . A moving and inevitably nostalgic or even elegiac read, redolent of the human grace and statesmanship of the Obama presidency.The Guardian
These stories, when you read them all together, tell the American story. Theyre inspirational, theyre frustrating, theyre angry, theyre grateful, theyre resilient.Valerie Jarrett
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