The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House Audiobook (Free)

A nuanced, behind-the-scenes and analytical narrative of Leader Obama’s White House tenure, by NBC’s award-winning Chief White Home Correspondent.

Barack Obama received the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But when he got to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, that differentiation turned out to be double-edged. While he’d been an excellent campaign politician, functioning inside the system as president turned out to be much more of a problem than Obama experienced ever imagined.

In THE STRANGER, NBC Main White House Correspondent Chuck Todd attracts upon his unprecedented inner-circle sources to make a gripping accounts of Obama’s tumultuous White House years. In doing so, not only does Todd give us one of the most disclosing portrait yet of this fascinating leader and his challenges, but illuminates what ‘Obamism’ is really, what the president stands for, and how his decisions have changed–and will change–American politics for decades.