The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House

by Chuck Todd

Book Overview

Chuck Todd's gripping, fly-on-the-wall account of Barack Obama's tumultuous struggle to succeed in Washington.

Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But if he'd come to the White House thinking he could change the political culture, he soon discovered just how difficult it was to swim against an upstream of insiders, partisans, and old guard networks allied to undermine his agenda -- including...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031607957X
• ISBN13: 9780316079570
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"