A brilliant yet rookie president without control of his subordinates. A technocrat faced with a house full of large personalities. A vessel of hope whose own staff has rocked the boat.
This is the portrait of the Obama White House we get from Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Suskind, who interviewed more than 200 insiders for his new book, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President, profiling the president’s campaign and his first two years in office. The book is an ambitious attempt to weave together how Obama the campaigner and President Obama are one in the same—and to provide a diagnosis for his administration that can explain its shortcomings.
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