The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama Audiobook (Free)

No story has been more central to America’s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and as yet, zero journalist or historian has written a reserve that fully investigates the circumstances and encounters of Obama’s lifestyle or explores the ambition behind his rise. Those familiar with Obama’s personal best-selling memoir or his marketing campaign speeches know the touchstones and information that he chooses to emphasize, but now-from a article writer whose gift for illuminating the historic significance of about The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama unfolding occasions is without peer-we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh, nuanced and unforeseen, of a man in search of himself, and of a rising politician determined to be the initial African-American president.

The Bridge offers the most satisfactory account yet of Obama’s tragic father, an excellent economist who abandoned his family and ended his existence being a beaten man; of his mom, Stanley Ann Dunham, who had a child as an adolescent and then built her career as an anthropologist living and learning in Indonesia; and of the succession of top notch institutions that 1st exposed Obama towards the sociable tensions and intellectual currents that would force him to imagine and style an identification for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with close friends and educators, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick we can observe how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man developed himself first being a community organizer in Chicago, an experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a house and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Legislation College, where his feeling of a greater mission emerged.

Deftly setting Obama’s political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicago’s history, Remnick shows us how that city’s complex racial legacy would make Obama’s forays into politics a way to obtain controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more capable opponents in the 2004 Senate race, as well as the story-from both sides-of his confrontation along with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. By searching at Obama’s political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of guys like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery, heroes from the civil privileges motion, who are pressured to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a fresh generation of African-American market leaders.

The Bridge revisits the American play of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obama’s quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to assume a future that’s different from the reality of their current lives.