"Never has the world needed strong and wise American leadership more than it does now. Abramsky's eminently readable description of Obama's per...
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Jul 10, 2010
This book is not a biography of the President. Journalist Sasha Abramsky even without having gotten an interview with Obama, is able to build a perfil of the person who went from community organizer in Chicago to the main entrance in the White House.
How he did manage to handle all racial disadvantages? How without have been living among powerful people and without strong politician roots he still managed to get into the Oval Office? Those questions are responded in this book.
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How he did manage to handle all racial disadvantages? How without have been living among powerful people and without strong politician roots he still managed to get into the Oval Office? Those questions are responded in this book.
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Sep 25, 2011
Rebekka
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Reading (actually listening to) Dreams from My Father first helped me to put Abramsky's work in context. Abramsky appears to do an impressive job piecing together the influences on Obama's thinking. Also, I found the references that Abramsky uses, particularly those on strategies for social and political organizing, to be thought-provoking. I am currently interested in workplace structure and the transmission of ideas and development of a culture within the workplace. I plan to look further into
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Sep 18, 2010
Minah
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It's a very Obama side book so you cannot see dark side of him. But what the most impressive thing from him is that Obama is both a pragmatist and an idealist. He's driven by ideals, but he doesn't want to keep ideals themselves. He wants to make ideals happen out there.
Jul 25, 2010
kyle
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This book had lots of interesting examples from Obama's rise to power of how he learned to be the man he is, but it also tends to be a bit repetitive and the author clearly thinks Obama is the definition of perfect, which can be a bit annoying at times.
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