Claude russell bridges biography of barack obama
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The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
biography by David Remnick
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama is a biography of Barack Obama, written by journalist David Remnick.
More than pages long, it concentrates particularly on Obama's rise to power and the presidency of the United States. In its first week of release it placed at No. 3 on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover nonfiction.[1]
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The book's title is a literal reference to a comment made by John Lewis, one of the leaders of the Selma to Montgomery marches of , on the eve of Obama's presidential inauguration, referring to the police attack on demonstrators at the Edmund Pettus Bridge: "Barack Obama is what comes at the end of that bridge in Selma."[2] Some reviewers have noted that the title refers more figuratively to a bridging of people of different races, and a span across time.[2][3]
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