The Center Holds, Jonathan Alter
The Center Holds, Jonathan Alter
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The Center Holds
Obama and His Enemies

Author: Jonathan Alter

Narrator: Jonathan Alter

Unabridged: 18 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/04/2013


Synopsis

From the bestselling author of The Promise, the thrilling story of one of the most momentous contests in American history, the Battle Royale between Obama and his enemies from the 2010 midterms through the 2013 inauguration.

In The Center Holds, Jonathan Alter provides the first full account of America at the crossroads. With exclusive reporting and rare historical insight, he pierces the bubble of the White House and the presidential campaigns in a landmark election that marked the return of big money and the rise of big data. He tells the epic story of an embattled president fighting back with the first campaign of the Digital Age.

Alter relates the untold story behind Obama’s highs and lows, from the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound to the frustration of the debt ceiling fiasco to his unexpected run-ins with black and Latino activists. Alter takes us inside Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s Boston campaign as well as Obama’s disastrous preparation for the first debate. We meet Obama’s analytics geeks working out of “The Cave” and the man who secretly videotaped Romney’s infamous comments on the “47 percent.”

The Center Holds deepens our understanding of the Obama presidency and the future of the country.

About Jonathan Alter

Jonathan Alter is an award-winning historian, columnist and documentary filmmaker. An MSNBC political analyst and former senior editor at Newsweek, he is the author of three New York Times bestsellers: The Center Holds: Obama and His EnemiesThe Promise: President Obama, Year One; and The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura

This one's a good read for the political junkie. Alter dissects the 2012 political campaign the detail. He's clearly an Obama fan, but he reports on the inner workings of both campaigns in a pretty objective fashion. He's particularly good on the contrast between the Obama and Romney "ground games"......more