A Long Time Coming": The Inspiring, Combative 2008 Campaign and the Historic Election of Barack Obama

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Издателство: PublicAffairs
Град на издаване: London
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Ширина (мм): 135
Височина (мм): 215
Дебелина (мм): 19
Корици: Меки

In Chicago, Illinois, at midnight on November 4, 2008, United States President-elect Barack Obama said to a sea of Americans, It has been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.

This is the rich and complex story behind the transformative U. S. election of 2008. For over a year, a special team of Newsweek reporters covered the presidential campaigns on an embargoed basis. In return for keeping their stories confidential until Election Day, the journalists received remarkable access to the candidates, their handlers, and their families. Based on this in-depth reporting, and written by bestselling author Evan Thomas, A Long Time Coming tells the inside story of Barack Obama’s triumph over Senator John McCain to become the first African-American U. S. president. It charts Obama’s meteoric rise, John McCain’s unexpected comeback, the long siege between Obama and Hillary Clinton, the explosive arrival of Sarah Palin, and Obama’s final road to victory. Full of intimate portraits of the new U. S. president, it shows how Obama overcame times of vexation and self-doubt to transform himself from the consummate outsider to the confident leader of an unstoppable political movement—one that brought hope and the possibility of redemption to the United States.

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Newsweek Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas has written more than a hundred cover stories. His other books include a biography of Robert Kennedy and, most recently, the New York Times bestseller Sea of Thunder. This book is based on reporting by Daren Briscoe, Eleanor Clift, Katie Connolly, Peter Goldman, Daniel Stone and Nick Summers.

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CONTENTS

Prologue by Jon Meacham: The Age of Obama vii

1 How He Did It i
2 Back from the Dead 31
3 The Long Siege 53
4 Going into Battle 81
5 Center Stage 111
6 The Great Debates 137
7 The Final Days 163

Epilogue 183

Appendix: An Interview with Barack Obama 195
Acknowledgments 219