The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama Audiobook

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• “Writing with emotional precision and a sure knowledge of politics, Mr. Remnick situates Mr. Obama’s career firmly within a historical context.”

  — New York Times 

• “Brilliantly constructed, flawlessly written…A near-definitive study of Obama.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “If you care about American politics, you have to read The Bridge.”

  — Salon

• “There are a few people of such skill that envy gives way to admiration, and one is left feeling not hostility but respect. Remnick is one of those exceptional practitioners.”

  — Newsweek

• “His work will serve as a building block for all future works on Obama…Lovely and assured.” 

  — Entertainment Weekly

• “An insightful, nuanced look at the making of the forty-forth president, placing his career in the context of history.” 

  — Chicago Tribune

• “The book’s insights into Obama’s character will be very useful for understanding the man's performance as president.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Engaging…Sparkling.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “An expansive work.”

  — Time

• “Remnick deserves credit for telling Obama’s story more completely than others, for lending a reporter’s zeal to the task, for not ducking the discussion of race, and for peeling back several layers of the onion that is Barack Obama.” 

  — Washington Post

• “[Remnick] manages to mine this young president’s familiar story…and find new insights.”

  — Christian Science Monitor

• “What Remnick brings to a complex story are the tools of an exceptional reporter: persistence, curiosity, insight…Rich in reflections and refractions.”

  — Bloomberg

• “Insightful, [a] valuable book…Remnick places Obama’s story squarely in the framework of America’s civil rights struggle.”

  — New Statesman

• “Compelling…A living metaphor for an increasingly diverse America…Remnick is one of the finest journalists in America and has delivered a thorough, well-crafted early entry in what is sure to be a long list of Obama biographies.”

  — St. Petersburg Times

• “Absorbing and seminal…Remnick is the most gifted and versatile journalist in America…The Bridge is the first truly great biography of the man in all his promise and complexities.”

  — San Antonio Express-News

• “Masterful, absorbing…A splendid synthesis, an argument for [Remnick’s] reporting gifts…For those interested in race as a social construct, The Bridge is essential reading.”

  — Cleveland Plain Dealer

• “Superb…Remnick is a master blender of history, reporting, and narrative.”

  — Seattle Times

• “The book’s strengths should appeal to readers of all political stripes: a real depth of reporting and the elegant grace of Remnick’s literary style…The reader is left with a nuanced account of our president’s self-crafted development.” 

  — St. Louis Post-Dispatch

• “A lively and enjoyable biography that is likely to remain definitive…Remnick should already be planning a sequel.”

  — Washington Monthly

• “Narrator Mark Deakins delivers an excellent performance, especially in his re-creation of key speeches. From his timing to his timbre, he sounds just like the president.”

  — Library Journal (audio review)

• “Eye-opening…Remnick’s fluent writing makes this expansive, significant book move along swiftly.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• Exhaustively researched…Remnick has many important additions and corrections to make to our reading of “Dreams From My Father”…The book’s insights into Obama’s character will be very useful for understanding the man’s performance as president.

  — Garry Wills, The New York Times Book Review

• An expansive work…Recounting a pivotal March 2007 speech in Selma, Remnick writes that Obama’s words were ‘at once personal, tribal, national and universal.’ The same can be said of The Bridge.

  — Time

• Remnick deserves credit for telling Obama’s story more completely than others, for lending a reporter’s zeal to the task, for not ducking the discussion of race and for peeling back several layers of the onion that is Barack Obama.

  — The Washington Post 

• What Remnick brings to a complex story are the tools of an exceptional reporter: persistence, curiosity, insight. He weaves in hours of on-the-record interviews with schoolmates, teachers, mentors, advisers and scholars…rich in reflections and refractions.

  — Bloomberg.com

• Superb. Beautifully written and artfully constructed.

  — The Economist

• Eminently readable…the great achievement of the book is that Remnick manages to say something different…Remnick himself is a bridge—to seeing fresh a man we think we know but only now, in his hard days in the White House, are beginning to understand.

  — The Boston Globe

• An insightful, nuanced look at the making of the 44ths president, placing his career in the context of history.

  — Chicago Tribune

• There are a few people of such skill that envy gives way to admiration, and one is left feeling not hostility but respect. Remnick is one of those exceptional practitioners…Remnick's biography depends not on nuggets but on his characteristically dispassionate, richly observed assessment of his subject. Without sermonizing or sentimentalizing, Remnick sheds light on the complicated role of race in Obama's rise and victory and, perhaps most relevantly, in the conduct of his presidency.

  — Jonathan Meacham, Newsweek

• A brilliantly constructed, flawlessly written biography.

  — Douglas Brinkley, The Los Angeles Times 

• Writing with emotional precision and a sure knowledge of politics, Mr. Remnick situates Mr. Obama’s career firmly within a historical context.

  — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

• If you care about American politics, you have to read The Bridge.

  — Salon

• Ambitious and well executed…It’s fair and high-minded, sensitive but dispassionate, admiring but never fawning…It’s this mix of intellect, fact, and feeling that distinguish Remnick’s assessment of Obama’s victory.

  — Time Out New York“His work will serve as a building block for all future works on Obama…lovely and assured.

• "What Remnick brings to a complex story are the tools of an exceptional reporter: persistence, curiosity, insight. He weaves in hours of on-the-record interviews with schoolmates, teachers, mentors, advisers and scholars…rich in reflections and refractions.

  — Bloomberg.com

• Superb. Beautifully written and artfully constructed.

  — The Economist

• "Eminently readable…the great achievement of the book is that Remnick manages to say something different…Remnick himself is a bridge—to seeing fresh a man we think we know but only now, in his hard days in the White House, are beginning to understand.

  — The Boston Globe

• An insightful, nuanced look at the making of the 44ths president, placing his career in the context of history.

  — Chicago Tribune

• Energetic…offers shrewd insights…Some of the best pages in the book are [Remnick’s] sustained reappraisal of Obama’s memoir.

  — The New York Review

• "No other book to date is better at revealing the roots and personality of Barack Obama. Remnick has set a lofty bar for future biographers.

  — Library Journal

• "A world-ranging, eye-opening, comprehensive life to date of the 44th President.

  — Kirkus

• A lively and enjoyable biography that is likely to remain definitive…Remnick should already be planning a sequel.

  — Washington Monthly

• “Remnick’s views have the capacity to jolt…like his subject, Remnick wields a skilful and nuanced pen. None, except those who (somewhat unsubtly) want to ‘take America back’, could fail to be moved.

  — The Financial Times

• “Has many important additions and corrections to make to our reading of Dreams from My Father.

  — New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2010 

• A balanced, highly readable and well-researched account.

  — Financial Times non-fiction favorites of 2010

• Beautifully written, artfully constructed and full of new detail about the president.

  — The Economist

• A truly masterful account.

  — The Daily Beast