戴維•雷姆尼剋(David Remnick)
曾擔任《華盛頓郵報》記者達10年之久,期間4年常駐莫斯科。1992年,他加盟《紐約客》雜誌。1998年以來,一直擔任該刊主編。
他之前齣版的關於拳王穆罕默德•阿裏的傳記著作《世界之王》,1998年被《時代》雜誌評選為非虛構類圖書第一名。1994年,他撰寫的《列寜墓:蘇聯最後的日子》獲得普利策奬
No story has been more central to America’s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama’s life or explores the ambition behind his rise. Those familiar with Obama’s own best-selling memoir or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but now—from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance of unfolding events is without peer—we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh, nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself, and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.
The Bridge offers the most complete account yet of Obama’s tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned his family and ended his life as a beaten man; of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia; and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama to the social tensions and intellectual currents that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged.
Deftly setting Obama’s political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicago’s history, Remnick shows us how that city’s complex racial legacy would make Obama’s forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the story—from both sides—of his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. By looking at Obama’s political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery, heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders.
The Bridge revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obama’s quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives.
發表於2024-11-10
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圖書標籤: Biography History
well written n done for the right purpose.
評分不論是對群體還是國傢 都是一百多年來最重要的一刻 Remnick用不到700頁 從把林肯到 60年代的平權運動以及Obama的前半生都講的這麼清楚 是個讓人非常佩服的作傢和記者 他當然非常喜愛obama 但也沒有避開obama政治傢身上算計和不統一的一麵 還有傢庭內部對他政治生涯的不肯定 可惜8年以後美國變成瞭現在這個樣子
評分不論是對群體還是國傢 都是一百多年來最重要的一刻 Remnick用不到700頁 從把林肯到 60年代的平權運動以及Obama的前半生都講的這麼清楚 是個讓人非常佩服的作傢和記者 他當然非常喜愛obama 但也沒有避開obama政治傢身上算計和不統一的一麵 還有傢庭內部對他政治生涯的不肯定 可惜8年以後美國變成瞭現在這個樣子
評分不論是對群體還是國傢 都是一百多年來最重要的一刻 Remnick用不到700頁 從把林肯到 60年代的平權運動以及Obama的前半生都講的這麼清楚 是個讓人非常佩服的作傢和記者 他當然非常喜愛obama 但也沒有避開obama政治傢身上算計和不統一的一麵 還有傢庭內部對他政治生涯的不肯定 可惜8年以後美國變成瞭現在這個樣子
評分不論是對群體還是國傢 都是一百多年來最重要的一刻 Remnick用不到700頁 從把林肯到 60年代的平權運動以及Obama的前半生都講的這麼清楚 是個讓人非常佩服的作傢和記者 他當然非常喜愛obama 但也沒有避開obama政治傢身上算計和不統一的一麵 還有傢庭內部對他政治生涯的不肯定 可惜8年以後美國變成瞭現在這個樣子
The Bridge 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載