The Promise : : President Obama, Year one

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Obama takes charge -- White House-in-waiting -- Grant Park -- Cabinet maker -- Picking Hillary -- President PDQ -- Historic inauguration -- Sea legs -- Zen temperament -- Rahmbo -- The shovel brigade -- Larry and Tim's excellent adventure -- The un-Bubba -- The global re-set -- Tyrannosaurus Rx -- Explainer-in-chief -- Off-hours -- The skinny guy and the fat cats -- Modus Obama -- "Don't blow it!" -- Chaos-istan -- The perfect and the good -- Epilogue.
Jonathan Alter, one of the country's most respected journalists and historians, uses his unique access to the White House to produce the first inside look at Obama's difficult debut. In Alter's telling, the real Obama is an authentic, demanding, unsentimental, and sometimes overconfident leader.

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