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 Enemies; The Promise: President Obama, Year One; and The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura on June 25, 2013

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

Goodreads review by Mary on July 07, 2013

The anecdote that has stayed with me from Alter's THE PROMISE--which I read and reviewed three years ago--was a quote from Barack Obama to the effect that he'd be damned to see Mitt Romney become president in 2013 and take credit for the recovery after he'd had to do all the dirty work back in 2009-......more

Goodreads review by Zachary on September 26, 2013

A good bit of this is a retread. If you kept track of the 2012 election, or the course of US politics after the 2010 election, you will see a lot you already know. However, it does give some interesting details of the inside of the Obama and Romney campaigns. Granted, the author is biased toward Oba......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie on November 02, 2013

I read The Promise and was looking forward to a follow-up effort after Obama's first term was over. This volume fills the bill. It's written in a narrative style that's easy to read and hits all the highlights of Obama's re-election campaign. It's really a nice contrast to all the anti-Obama books t......more

Goodreads review by Tom on July 09, 2013

Great read. As painful as it was reliving some of Obama's missteps, it was even scarier to be reminded what it would have been like if Romney had won.......more

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