{"product_id":"to-obama-9781408894507","title":"To Obama","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the most important politics books of the year, \u003ci\u003eTo Obama \u003c\/i\u003eis a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe real story of Obama's America' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eEvery day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from ordinary American citizens. Every night, he read ten of them before going to bed.   In \u003ci\u003eTo Obama, \u003c\/i\u003eJeanne Marie Laskas interviews President Obama, the letter-writers themselves and the White House staff in the Office of Presidential Correspondence who were witness to the millions of pleas, rants, thank-yous and apologies that landed in the mailroom during the Obama years. At once desperate, joyful, hateful and despairing, they form an intimate portrait of one man's relationship with the American people, and of a time when empathy intersected with politics in the White House.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReminiscent of Tom Wolfe at his best\u003c\/b\u003e … It may be trite to say that \u003ci\u003eTo Obama\u003c\/i\u003e is itself a love letter, but that’s how it reads: like a letter to someone long lost. It is \u003cb\u003esteeped in a powerful yearning for a period in time\u003c\/b\u003e that slips further from us with every passing day. How did we fall so far? * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA moving and inevitably nostalgic or even elegiac read\u003c\/b\u003e, redolent of the human grace and statesmanship of the Obama presidency ... \u003cb\u003eA beautifully researched and written book\u003c\/b\u003e * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Obama\u003c\/i\u003e gives us a glimpse of a secret and incredibly sweet world within his White House, and paints a portrait of a man deeply concerned with his citizens' problems, struggling to do the right thing. \u003cb\u003e[A] startling, delicate and immensely readable story\u003c\/b\u003e ... \u003cb\u003eAnother poignant reminder of what once was\u003c\/b\u003e * Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFull of lovely details\u003c\/b\u003e ... The insight into America provided by the letters cleverly selected by Laskas is \u003cb\u003efascinating\u003c\/b\u003e * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eThese stories, when you read them all together, tell the American story. \u003cb\u003eIt’s inspirational, it’s frustrating, it’s angry, it’s grateful, it’s resilient\u003c\/b\u003e -- Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama\u003cbr\u003eAlternately \u003cb\u003eheart-breaking and hopeful, angry and questioning\u003c\/b\u003e – the empathetic, often poetic, polar opposite of the Trump twitter feed * Vogue *\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003eheartbreaking, hope-inducing\u003c\/b\u003e letters tell the story of a nation * Elle *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408027328855,"sku":"9781408894507","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408894507.jpg?v=1730501316","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/to-obama-9781408894507","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}