The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama - Softcover

"Brilliantly constructed, flawlessly written....A near-definitive study of Obama." -The Los Angeles Times

"If you care about American politics, you have to read The Bridge." -Salon

"Superb. . . . Remnick is a master blender of history, reporting and narrative." --The Seattle Times

"Insight[ful] and nuance[d]. . . .Writing with emotional precision and a sure knowledge of politics, Mr. Remnick situates Mr. Obama's career firmly within a historical context." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"There are a few people of such skill that envy gives way to admiration, and one is left feeling not hostility but respect. Remnick is one of those exceptional practitioners."-Newsweek

"His work will serve as a building block for all future works on Obama. . . .Lovely and assured." -Entertainment Weekly

"Engaging. . . .Sparkling." -San Francisco Chronicle

"An expansive work. . . .Recounting a pivotal March 2007 speech in Selma, Remnick writes that Obama's words were 'at once personal, tribal, national and universal.' The same can be said of The Bridge." -Time

"An insightful, nuanced look at the making of the 44th president, placing his career in the context of history." -The Chicago Tribune

"Absorbing and seminal. . . .Remnick is the most gifted and versatile journalist in America. . . .The Bridge is the first truly great biography of the man in all his promise and complexities." -San Antonio Express-News

"Remnick deserves credit for telling Obama's story more completely than others, for lending a reporter's zeal to the task, for not ducking the discussion of race and for peeling back several layers of the onion that is Barack Obama." -Gwen Ifill, The Washington Post

"What Remnick brings to a complex story are the tools of an exceptional reporter: persistence, curiosity, insight. . . .Rich in reflections and refractions." -Bloomberg.com

"Compelling. . . .A living metaphor for an increasingly diverse America. . . .Remnick is one of the finest journalists in America, and has delivered a thorough, well-crafted early entry in what is sure to be a long list of Obama biographies." -St. Petersburg Times

"[Remnick] manages to mine this young president's familiar story--the absent Kenyan father, the itinerant and idealistic young white mother, a childhood of wandering from Hawaii to Indonesia and back again--and find new insights." -The Christian Science Monitor

"Insightful, [a] valuable book. . . .Remnick places Obama's story squarely in the framework of America's civil rights struggle." -The New Statesman

"Masterful, absorbing. . . .A splendid synthesis, an argument for [Remnick's] reporting gifts. . . .For those interested in race as a social construct, The Bridge is essential reading." -The Cleveland Plain Dealer

"The book's strengths should appeal to readers of all political stripes: a real depth of reporting and the elegant grace of Remnick's literary style. . . .The reader is left with a nuanced account of our president's self-crafted development." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"A lively and enjoyable biography that is likely to remain definitive. . . .Remnick should already be planning a sequel." -The Washington Monthly