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To Obama audiobook
- By: Jeanne Marie Laskas
- Narrator: Jeanne Marie Laskas
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Presidents & Heads of State
- Length: 12 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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To Obama Audiobook Summary
President Barack Obama received ten thousand letters a day from his constituents. This is the story of the private and profound relationship with letter writers that shaped his presidency. Their voices combine to reveal a diary of a nation.
Every evening for eight years, at his request, President Obama was given ten handpicked letters written by ordinary American citizens—the unfiltered voice of a nation—from his Office of Presidential Correspondence. He was the first president to interact daily with constituent mail and to archive it in its entirety. The letters affected not only the president and his policies but also the deeply committed people who were tasked with opening and reading the millions of pleas, rants, thank-yous, and apologies that landed in the White House mailroom.
In To Obama, Jeanne Marie Laskas interviews President Obama, the letter writers themselves, and the White House staff who sifted through the powerful, moving, and incredibly intimate narrative of America during the Obama years: There is Kelli, who saw her grandfathers finally marry—legally—after thirty-five years together; Bill, a lifelong Republican whose attitude toward immigration reform was transformed when he met a boy escaping MS-13 gang leaders in El Salvador; Heba, a Syrian refugee who wants to forget the day the tanks rolled into her village; Marjorie, who grappled with disturbing feelings of racial bias lurking within her during the George Zimmerman trial; and Vicki, whose family was torn apart by those who voted for Trump and those who did not.
They wrote to Obama out of gratitude and desperation, in their darkest times of need, in search of connection. They wrote with anger, fear, and respect. And together, this chorus of voices achieves a kind of beautiful harmony. To Obama is an intimate look at one man’s relationship to the American people, and at a time when empathy intersected with politics in the White House.
Read by Jeanne Marie Laskas with Sullivan Jones, and with Macleod Andrews, Paula Christensen, Michael Crouch, Donna Coltharp, Sheryl Cousineau, Shane Darby, Ramon de Ocampo, Robert Fass, Lauren Fortang, Kyla Garcia, Heba Hallak, Marnie Hazelton, Lacey Higley, Tom Hoefner, Hillary Huber, Bobby Ingram, Marjorie McKinney, Thomas Meehan, Bob Melton, Alex Myteberi, Adenrele Ojo, Bill Oliver, Christine Reisman, Tara Sands, Vicki Shearer, Marc Thompson, and Emily Woo Zeller
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To Obama Full Details
| Narrator | Jeanne Marie Laskas |
| Length | 12 hours 21 minutes |
| Author | Jeanne Marie Laskas |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 30, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780525641049 |
Subjects
The publisher of the To Obama is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: president obama, Michelle Obama books, Michelle Obama, POTUS, White House, current events, collection, leadership books, leadership, communication, letters to, letters of note, Washington, collection of letters, Barack Obama book, biographies, biography, history books, Barack Obama books, commander in chief, US presidents, presidents, political books, politics, political science, letters, US history, government, Barack Obama, American government, Obama book, Obama, American history, history, obama books, american history, Biography & Autobiography, Presidents & Heads of State, Literary Collections, Letters, History, United States, 21st Century The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Presidents & Heads of State
Additional info
The publisher of the To Obama is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780525641049.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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