Posts Tagged ‘ Hardcover ’

From The Washington Post From The Washington Post’s Book World/washingtonpost.com Reviewed by David Greenberg Political consultants — the handlers, hucksters, hacks, flacks, ghosts and other assorted spinmeisters who form the modern campaign’s supporting cast — bring forth our conflicted feelings about...
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Eyewitness Presidents is an updated edition of DK s classic look at America s presidents in addition to the CD, wall chart, and extra 8 pages, the book will be updated to include information about the winner of the 2008 election, Barack Obama. (more…)
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From School Library Journal This is the Washington Post’s competition with the Times book, above. It costs less, but readers get less. While the Times book is a keeper for the ages, this one has a cheesier look to its graphics and no contribution from the newspaper’s...
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Barack Obama’s inauguration as president on January 20, 2009, inspired the world. But the great promise of “Change We Can Believe In” was immediately tested by the threat of another Great Depression, a worsening war in Afghanistan, and an entrenched and deeply partisan system of business as usual in Washington. Despite all the...
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Amazon.com Review A Look Inside Obama: The Historic Journey (Click on Images to Enlarge) The candidate speaking...
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Review “The phenomenon that is Barack Obama has intrigued us all. Who is Barack Obama? The editors of LIFE have gone a very long way toward helping us all answer this question. Senator Obama’s singularly American life has been characterized by tragedy and triumph, drama and despair,...
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From Publishers Weekly Elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama was offered a book contract, but the intellectual journey he planned to recount became instead this poignant, probing memoir of an unusual life. Born in 1961 to a white American woman and a...
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From Publishers Weekly Remnick (Lenin’s Tomb), editor of the New Yorker, offers a detailed but lusterless account of Barack Obama’s historic ascent. As a piece of “biographical journalism,” the book succeeds ably enough and offers familiar commentary on Obama’s cosmopolitan childhood with strains of isolation and abandonment...
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In her shocking new book, Michelle Malkin digs deep into the records of President Obama’s staff, revealing corrupt dealings, questionable pasts, and abuses of power throughout his administration. –This text refers to the Audio CD edition. From the Inside Flap The era of hope and...
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From Publishers Weekly Author and conservative talk radio host Levin (Rescuing Sprite, Men in Black) takes on the Statist, a liberal straw man, in this collection of polemics against left-wing tenets (like “economic and social justice”), touchstones (like the New Deal) and institutions (strongholds of liberal thought...
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