by David Remnick · Pan Macmillan · tapa dura · ISBN 9780330509947
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«The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama» is the biography of Barack Obama written by David Remnick, published by Pan Macmillan in hardcover (672 pages, in English).
Remnick reconstructs the life of Barack Obama from his youth and his time in Chicago to the presidency of the United States, showing how the country's racial heritage shaped his political identity. With interviews with family, friends, mentors and rivals, he reviews the campaign that took him to the White House.
Published in 2010; it was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for History and Biography and made the longlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
For readers interested in political biographies, the history of the United States and the figure of Barack Obama.
David J. Remnick is an American journalist, writer, and editor. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, and is also the author of Resurrection and King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero. Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker magazine since 1998. He was named "Editor of the Year" by Advertising Age in 2000. Before joining The New Yorker, Remnick was a reporter and the Moscow correspondent for The Washington Post. In 2010, he published his sixth book, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama.
