The Promise: President Obama, Year One

A fast-paced and incisive narrative from one of the country’s most respected journalists and historians using his unique access to the White House to produce an inside look at Obama’s difficult presidency.

Barack Obama’s inauguration as president on January 20, 2009, inspired the world. But the great promise of “Change We Can Believe In” was immediately tested by the threat of another Great Depression, a worsening war in Afghanistan, and an entrenched and deeply partisan system of business ...