Renegade: The Making of a President
by Richard Wolffe
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Book Reviews of Renegade: The Making of a President
Book Review: Thedore White, You've Been Replaced....
Summary: 5 Stars
This delicious book is a wonderful encapsulation of how Barack Obama's combination of self-confidence, humility, risk-taking, and understatement got strengthened - mostly in the eighteen month travail of the primary season. Notwithstanding other reviews, this book complements Obama's own autobiography with telling anecdotes and insights. Anyone interested in finding out who the 'real' Barack Obama is, read this book. Wolffe combines on-the-ground reportage of selected turning-point events with thoughtful insights on the candidate and his team. It helps, of course, that Wolffe himself has something of Obama's background: son of a Briton and a Moroccan, and Jewish to boot - he brings the sensibility of an individual both inside and outside his own culture, much as Obama's own experience. This book is destined to be a classic in the political literature. I finished it off in two nights - it was a 'page turner.'
Book Review: Insect Head Slobber on Obamer
Summary: 1 Stars
This book reads like a pack of blah blah nonsense.Was my title too mean? I dont think so.We get the same talking heads in the corporate media over and over adnauseam.And they continue to lie about 911 and the so called War on terror which is really a War of Terror.Renegade??? I am sorry,as in Outlaw??? I dont think so.This Obama has chosen to continue the Cheney,Bush 911 LIE and the War of Terror.He is afraid to get out of Iraq.Is he really in charge? Whoever is,these people just dont learn.You just dont invade countries on the other side of the Earth and stay there.The brainwashed boys who go there will just continue to be picked off here and there.Its the way things work.Why cant someone in power finally actually learn something from Vietnam? The new code name for Obama should be Bottle.Because he is just a new Bottle.Same wine as Cheney and Clinton but just a new,more attractive looking and speaking bottle.Book Review: Sounds like it was written by Obama himself....
Summary: 1 Stars
As a fan of Richard Wolffe, I was looking forward to reading this account - what a total disappointment. It was nothing more than regurgitated interviews with this "Renegade" President and woefully one-sided. It's hard to take this book seriously when it is nothing more than a flagrant puff piece. It could have just as easily been written by any other Obamatot. When the editor of Newsweek was on TV last week with Richard Wolffe to commend him on his "reporting" and then compared Obama to God, that's when I put the book away, cancelled my subscription to Newsweek and returned to the real world. If you're an Obama "fan" and don't want to read anything even remotely critical of the man, then this is certainly a great read for you. If you're looking for an unbiased account of the campaign and eventual President, then save your money and wait for a real writer to publish an account.Book Review: A Good Read But Wanted More
Summary: 4 Stars
When I found out about Richard Wolffe's book, 'Renegade' detailing the 2008 campaign, I quickly bought a copy. It was really good with behind the scenes thoughts of what was going on in front of the camera and in public, but I wanted more. As a student of political science and love all things politics, most of the book was not new.
Basically the book gave a little more than what I already knew when it was happening and reading the blogs at the time. I do like Mr. Wolffe's style and the little analysis he gave but, again, I wish there was more of it in the book. Richard Wolffe is wonderful on TV, especially when he gives analysis after important events. I was looking for more that kind of work in book form. Either way, the book was thoroughly enjoyable and recommends it for those that did not follow the campaign but wants to know more now!!!
Book Review: Well written with some new insight, but not ground breaking
Summary: 4 Stars
Having just finished this book I give it 4 stars because, unlike many books, I did finish it. It's not five stars because it's I'm not left with a "wow" moment, yet a lower rating would seem harsh - and more an error on my part. I should have known the book I picked up to read.
Some criticism of the book is founded - it was written by a journalist, yet seemed to lack the objectivity of hard hitting journalism. This isn't a book about hard-hitting journalism though. This is portrait of a candidate turned president that gives glimpses into the struggles, aspirations and successes of Obama. Other writers will provide the objective history on this president in time.
But of course, if you were never an Obama supporter, then you'd find yourself sorely disappointed that this book doesn't tear him down.