Book description
During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama himself told veteran
political reporter Richard Wolffe, 'You'll get more access than anyone
else', and Renegade is his unique story of how a political
newcomer with no money and an outsider's name grew into the world's
most powerful leader. But it is also a uniquely intimate portrait of
the person behind the iconic posters and the man codenamed 'Renegade'
by his Secret Service protectors. Wolffe portrays an historic
candidate and his - until now - inscrutable character and campaign in
untold, stunning detail, from his university lecturer's office in Iowa
to the Oval Office in Washington. With unprecedented access, gained
over a dozen exclusive interviews with Obama, Wolffe shares with us
his front row seat. We fly on the candidate's plane and ride in his
bus on an odyssey across a country in crisis; we stand next to him at
a bar on the night he secures the nomination; and feel the tension
backstage as he delivers his convention speech to a stadium crowd and
a transfixed TV audience.
Renegade is not just an election epic but is also an
insightful biography of the new President of the United States.
British born Richard Wolffe
was most recently
Newsweek
's senior White House correspondent. He covered the length of Barack
Obama's presidential campaign, travelling with the candidate from his
announcement through to Election Day, 21 months later and was granted
Obama's first print interview inside the Oval Office. Prior to writing
for
Newsweek
, Wolffe was a senior journalist at the
Financial Times
, working as its deputy bureau chief and US diplomatic correspondent in
Washington, D. C. He is a political analyst for NBC, appears frequently
on MSNBC, as well as on international media including the BBC and CBC.
