6/28/2023 0 Comments The promise by jonathan alterIt's the ideal subject matter for Alter, a supple and incisive writer, whose "The Defining Moment: FDR's First Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope" was a bestseller read by Obama as he prepared to take office.Īlter argues that, with the cooperation of Bush, Obama, beginning with the White House summit, "essentially took charge" in Washington, and after his election, made more significant economic decisions that any previous president-elect. With "The Promise," Alter, a Newsweek columnist, makes excellent use of his access to White House officials to document the first year of the Obama administration through passage of the health care bill. Obama was taking charge of the meeting - and the crisis - peppering the others with detailed questions." He was the only one of the big dogs who seemed to know what he was talking about. That left the skinny African-American guy who had crashed into their world only three-and-a-half years earlier. ‘He's already in Crawford,' whispered one Republican. Bush, who was supposed to be leading the meeting, was poorly informed and detached. McCain's absence from the discussion was stark. Alter, noting the dynamics that were happening, writes, "By this time the molecules of power in American politics were in a rapid state of realignment.
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