22. Obama on The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News, 4, 8, 9, and 10 September 2008, and on 20/20, ABC, 26 September 2008; Obama Interview Transcript, DFP, 3 October 2008; Michelle Obama on 20/20, ABC, 3 October 2008; John Kass, “A Presidential Debate, the Chicago Way,” CT, 5 October 2008; Deanna Bellandi, “Family, Friends Help Obamas Juggle Kids, Campaign,” AP, 13 October 2008; Liza Mundy, “Michelle and Me,” Slate, 14 October 2008; David Brooks, “Thinking About Obama,” NYT, 17 October 2008; Jasmin Sandelson, “This Sterile Presidency,” Varsity, 17 October 2008, p. 28; Richard Epstein, “The Obama I (Don’t) Know,” Forbes, 21 October 2008; Michael Powell, “After a Year on the Road, Obama Is Changing His Tempo,” NYT, 22 October 2008; Michael Gerson, “The Irony of Obama,” WP, 22 October 2008; Colm Toibín, “James Baldwin & Barack Obama,” NYRB, 23 October 2008; Robert Shikina, “Somber Obama Returns Home,” HSB, 24 October 2008; Obama on Good Morning America, ABC, 24 October 2008; Jeff Zeleny, “On Perhaps a Final Visit to a Most Beloved Supporter,” NYT, 25 October 2008; Robert Barnes, “Obama Visits Grandma Who Was His ‘Rock,’” WP, 25 October 2008; Jodi Kantor, “Barack Obama, Forever Sizing Up,” NYT, 26 October 2008; Keith Richburg, “America Is Showing Europe the Way Again,” Observer, 26 October 2008; Jeff Zeleny, “Long by Obama’s Side,” NYT, 27 October 2008; Eric Bates, “Obama’s Moment,” Rolling Stone 1064, 30 October 2008, pp. 74–81; John Heilemann, “Obama Sheds Tears for Grandma in North Carolina,” NYM, 3 November 2008; Dan Nakaso, “Obama’s Sister ‘Wept Tears of Joy’ Over His Win,” HA, 12 November 2008; Dalton Tanonaka, “We’re All Coming to the Ball,” JP, 30 November 2008; Christopher Hitchens, “Cool Cat,” Atlantic, January–February 2009; Frank Rudy Cooper, “Our First Unisex President?: Black Masculinity and Obama’s Feminine Side,” Denver University Law Review 86 (2009): 633–61; Rice and Sams, By the People, Pivotal Pictures, 2009.
23. Adam Nagourney et al., “Near-Flawless Run Is Credited in Victory,” NYT, 5 November 2008; Shelby Steele, “Obama’s Post-Racial Promise,” LAT, 5 November 2008; John W. Dean, “Predicting the Nature of Obama’s Presidency,” FindLaw, 14 November 2008; Robert Fitch, “The Change They Believe In,” speech to Harlem Tenants’ Association, 14 November 2008; Kevin Merida, “Letting the Big Win Sink In,” WP, 15 November 2008; Obama on 60 Minutes, CBS, 16 November 2008; Evan Thomas et al., “Barack Obama: How He Did It,” Newsweek, 17 November 2008; Jodi Kantor, “An Old Hometown Mentor, and Still at Obama’s Side,” NYT, 24 November 2008; Marie Arana, “He’s Not Black,” WP, 30 November 2008; Kantor, “Obama’s Friends Form Strategy to Stay Close,” NYT, 13 December 2008; Richard Stengel et al., “The Interview: Person of the Year Barack Obama,” Time, 17 December 2008; Chris Bailey, “Obama Bids Farewell to Grandmother on Oahu Coast,” HM, 24 December 2008; Jeff Zeleny, “Obama’s Zen State,” NYT, 25 December 2008; Eli Saslow, “As Duties Weigh Obama Down, His Faith in Fitness Only Increases,” WP, 25 December 2008; Obama’s interview with John Harwood, CNBC, 7 January 2009; Richard Thompson Ford, “Barack Is the New Black,” DuBois Review 6 (March 2009): 37–48, at 40; Michelle C. Bligh and Jeffrey C. Kohles, “The Enduring Allure of Charisma: How Barack Obama Won the Historic 2008 Presidential Election,” Leadership Quarterly 20 (June 2009): 483–92; DJG interviews with Lou Celi, Emil Jones Jr., Peter Coffey, Dave Feller, and Vicky Rideout.
24. Hill Harper, “I Want to Be Like Him,” Essence, January 2009, p. 110; Obama, “What I Want for You—and Every Child in America,” Parade Magazine, 14 January 2009; Michael D. Shear, “Obama Pledges Entitlement Reform,” WP, 16 January 2009; Peggy Noonan, “Look at the Time,” WSJ, 30 January 2009; David Brooks, “A Moderate Manifesto,” NYT, 3 March 2009; Carol E. Lee and Jonathan Martin, “Obama: ‘I Am a New Democrat,’” Politico, 10 March 2009; Obama, remarks on earmark reform, 11 March 2009; Peter Baker and David M. Herszenhorn, “Obama Signs Spending Bill but Criticizes Earmarks,” NYT, 12 March 2009; Paul Kane and Scott Wilson, “Obama Signs Spending Bill, Vowing to Battle Earmarks,” WP, 12 March 2009; Jonathan Weisman and Greg Hitt, “Obama Outlines Plan to Curb Earmarks,” WSJ, 12 March 2009; Noam Scheiber, “What’s Eating David Axelrod?,” TNR, 14 October 2010; Edward McClelland, “The Ones Obama Left Behind,” NBCChicago.com, 23 March 2011; Kantor, The Obamas, p. 33; Suskind, Confidence Men, pp. 195–96, 239; Gates, Duty, p. 96; Todd, The Stranger, pp. 75–79; Axelrod, Believer, p. 346; Axelrod in Michael Grunwald, “The Selling of Obama,” Politico Magazine, May–June 2016.
25. Obama on 60 Minutes, CBS, 22 March 2009; Jim Merriner, “Barack Obama and the Parallel to Jimmy Carter,” CDO, 24 March 2009; Oprah Winfrey, “Oprah Talks to Michelle Obama,” O Magazine, April 2009; Dale Singer, “The Same Forces Shaped Obama and Blagojevich, Scott Simon Says,” St. Louis Beacon, 6 April 2009; Angela Burt-Murray, “A Mother’s Love,” Essence, May 2009, pp. 104–13; Obama’s interview with Steve Scully, C-SPAN, 22 May 2009; Jon Meacham, “What He’s Like Now,” Newsweek, 25 May 2009, pp. 36–42; Peter Baker and Jeff Zeleny, “Obama Chooses Hispanic Judge for Supreme Court Seat,” NYT, 27 May 2009; Robert J. Samuelson, “The Obama Infatuation,” WP, 1 June 2009; Ben Smith, “A Sheep in Wolffe’s Clothing,” Politico, 3 June 2009; Kevin Baker, “Barack Hoover Obama: The Best and Brightest Blow It Again,” Harper’s, July 2009, pp. 29–37; Obama’s 23 July 2009 interview with ABC’s Terry Moran; Lexington, “The Obama Cult,” Economist, 25 July 2009, p. 42; Glenn C. Loury, “Obama, Gates and the American Black Man,” NYT, 26 July 2009; Neil King Jr. and Jonathan Weisman, “A President as Micromanager,” WSJ, 12 August 2009; Sonia Sotomayor’s interview with Susan Swain, C-SPAN, 16 September 2009; Edward Luce, “A Fearsome Foursome,” FT, 3 February 2010; Suskind, Confidence Men, p. 323; Philip Galanes, “Barack Obama and Bryan Cranston on the Roles of a Lifetime,” NYT, 6 May 2016.
26. Sheila Jager e-mails to DJG, 6 (2), 7 (3), 8 (2), and 9 (2) August 2009. Sheila was relieved to be contacted by someone she viewed as “a first-rate historian” rather than a journalist, and sharing her memories unburdened her. “It has been thrilling speaking to you about him.”
27. Obama on 60 Minutes, CBS, 13 September 2009; Obama on Face the Nation, CBS, 20 September 2009; Richard Cohen, “Obama’s Identity Crisis,” WP, 20 October 2009; Obama’s 27 October 2009 interview with U.S. News’ Kenneth T. Walsh; John Heilemann, “Obama Lost, Obama Found,” NYM, 29 November 2009; Peter Spiegel et al., “Obama Bets Big on Troop Surge,” WSJ, 2 December 2009; Obama on 60 Minutes, CBS, 7 December 2009; Owen Fiss, “Obama’s Betrayal,” Slate, 4 December 2009; Obama’s 11 December 2009 interview with Will Smith; Jake Tapper, “President Obama Grades Self,” ABCNews.com, 14 December 2009; Christ Frates, “Payoffs for States Get Reid to 60,” Politico, 19 December 2009; Josef Joffe, “Who Is This Guy?,” American Interest, January 2010; Christi Parsons, “A Look at Obama’s First Year in Presidency,” LAT, 17 January 2010; Mark Knoller, “Obama’s First Year: By the Numbers,” CBSNews.com, 20 January 2010; Joe Klein, “Q&A: Obama on His First Year in Office,” Time, 21 January 2010; John Heilemann, “Mr. Cool Gets Hot,” NYM, 22 January 2010; Larry Hackett and Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, “Our First Year,” People, 25 January 2010, pp. 60ff.; James W. Ceasar, “The Roots of Obama Worship,” Weekly Standard, 25 January 2010; Obama’s 25 January 2010 interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer; Byron York, “Has Obama Become Bored with Being President?,” Washington Examiner, 29 January 2010; Edward Luce, “A Fearsome Foursome,” FT, 3 February 2010; Lawrence Lessig, “How to Get Our Democracy Back,” The Nation, 22 February 2010; Jackson Diehl, “Where Are Obama’s Foreign Confidants?,” WP, 8 March 2010; David Brooks, “Getting Obama Right,” NYT, 12 March 2010.
28. Douglas Brinkley, “The Bridge,” LAT, 28 March 2010; Frank Rich, “It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Obama,” NYT, 4 April 2010; Ginger Adams Otis, “The Bridge,” NYP, 4 April 2010; Mike Wilson, “Success Crafted by Timely Adaptation,” SPT, 5 April 2010; Erik Spanberg, “The Bridge,” CSM, 5 April 2010; Joan Walsh, “Barack Obama: The Opacity of Hope,” Salon, 5 April 2010; Michiko Kakutani, “Seeking Identity, Shaping a Natio
n’s,” NYT, 6 April 2010; “His Big Moment Begins,” Economist, 8 April 2010; Christopher Borelli, “New Yorker Editor David Remnick Pens New Obama Biography,” CT, 8 April 2010; Amy Black, “Taking the Measure of Barack Obama,” Books & Culture, 9 April 2010; David W. Blight, “The Bridge,” SFC, 10 April 2010; Garry Wills, “Behind Obama’s Cool,” NYTBR, 11 April 2010; Jon Meacham, “The New Book on Barack Obama,” Newsweek, 12 April 2010; Darryl L. Wellington, “Autobiographical Fire and Obama’s Creation of Self,” The Common Review, 14 April 2010; Howard W. French, “Dirt Off His Shoulders,” The National, 16 April 2010; Joseph Lelyveld, “Who Is Barack Obama?,” NYRB, 19 April 2010; John R. MacArthur, “Under False Colours,” Spectator, 8 May 2010, p. 33; Mona Gable, “Chronicling President Barack Obama,” LAT, 19 May 2010; Todd, The Stranger, pp. 86, 126; Sheila Jager e-mails to DJG, 8 (2), 9, 12, and 13 April 2010.
29. Richard Cohen, “President Obama’s Enigmatic Intellectualism,” WP, 22 June 2010; Kathleen Parker, “Obama: Our First Female President,” WP, 30 June 2010; Cohen, “Who Is Barack Obama?,” WP, 20 July 2010; David Ignatius, “A President Tripped Up by the Spontaneous,” WP, 25 July 2010; Peter Nicholas and Janet Hook, “Obama the Velcro President,” LAT, 30 July 2010; Mitch McConnell on Fox on the Record, Fox News, 4 August 2010; Obama’s interview with Brian Lamb, C-SPAN, 12 August 2010; Frank Rich, “Why Has He Fallen Short?,” NYRB, 19 August 2010; Josh Gerstein, “Should Obama Show His Faith?,” Politico, 19 August 2010; James Hohmann and John F. Harris, “Dems Urge Obama to Take a Stand,” Politico, 23 August 2010; Obama’s interview with Peter Baker, 27 September 2010, NYT, 12 October 2010; Jann S. Wenner, “Obama in Command,” Rolling Stone, 14 October 2010; Obama’s interview with Bill Simmons, GQ, 17 November 2015.
30. Woodward, Obama’s Wars, pp. 38–39, 207, 338, 344; Gates, Duty, pp. 298–99, 569, 585, 587; Peter Baker, “The Education of President Obama,” NYT Magazine, 17 October 2010; Hodge, The Mendacity of Hope (HarperCollins, 2010), pp. 1, 20, 130; Johnny E. Williams, “‘Change You Can Believe In’: You Better Not Believe It,” Critical Sociology 38 (September 2012): 747–68, at 761; Suskind, Confidence Men, pp. 451, 459; Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Obama’s Playbook After Nov. 2,” NYT, 25 October 2010.
31. Joe Klein, “Where Obama Goes from Here,” Time, 4 November 2010; John F. Harris and Glenn Thrush, “The Ego Factor: Can Obama Change?,” Politico, 5 November 2010; Obama on 60 Minutes, CBS, 7 November 2010; Eleanor Clift, “The Problem with the Cult of Obama,” Newsweek, 21 November 2010; Jonathan V. Last, “American Narcissus,” Weekly Standard, 22 November 2010; Alan Brinkley, “The Philosopher President,” Democracy Journal, Winter 2011, pp. 80–85; Jim Sleeper, “An Unlikely Pragmatist,” Dissent, Spring 2011, pp. 106–9; Wolffe, The Message, pp. 48–55, 64; Halperin and Heilemann, Double Down, pp. 15–16; Bill Glauber, “Chicago Neighborhood Watching President-Elect Closely,” MJS, 12 January 2009; Carol Felsenthal, “N’Digo Publisher Hermene Hartman: Loyalty Not One of Obama’s Qualities,” CM, 21 March 2011; Edward McClelland, “The Ones Obama Left Behind,” NBCChicago.com, 23 March 2011; Chris Hedges, “The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic,” TruthDig.com, 16 May 2011; Don Terry, “Fighting Crime and Pressuring the Mayor,” NYT, 4 August 2011; Joel Hood, “CPS Fails to Close Performance Gap,” CT, 14 November 2011; Michael Leahy, “Old Obama Acquaintance Voices South Side’s Disillusionment with His Former Ally,” WP, 17 August 2012; Paul Tough, “Obama vs. Poverty,” NYT Magazine, 19 August 2012; Dawn Turner Trice, “Harold Washington Made Us Feel Proud,” CT, 17 November 2012; Ben Austen, “The Death and Life of Chicago,” NYT Magazine, 2 June 2013; Dahleen Glanton and Lolly Bowean, “Trouble in Pill Hill,” CT, 24 November 2013; Glenn Thrush, “Obama’s Obama,” Politico Magazine, January–February 2016; DJG interviews with Hermene Hartman, Stephen Pugh, and John Webster.
32. Paul Krugman, “The President Is Missing,” NYT, 11 April 2011; Perry Bacon Jr., “Obama’s Budget Speech Carries Partisan Tone,” WP, 13 April 2011; Lori Montgomery, “Obama Address Was Surprise Attack, GOP Lawmakers Say,” WP, 15 April 2011; Ryan Lizza, “The Consequentialist,” TNY, 2 May 2011; Obama’s 4 May 2011 interview with CBS’s Steve Kroft; Jacob Weisberg, “Obama Mama,” Slate, 9 May 2011; David Greenberg, “Hope, Change, Nietzsche,” TNR, 26 May 2011; Walter Russell Mead, “Can This Presidency Be Saved?,” American Interest, 17 June 2011; Toby Harnden, “A Life of President Obama’s Father,” Telegraph, 5 August 2011; Drew Westen, “What Happened to Obama?,” NYT, 7 August 2011; Scott Wilson, “Obama, the Loner President,” WP, 7 October 2011; Kennedy, The Persistence of the Color Line, pp. 22–24, 273; Jackie Calmes, “Obama’s Deficit Dilemma,” NYT, 27 February 2012; Peter Wallsten et al., “Obama’s Evolution,” WP, 17 March 2012; Wolffe, The Message, p. 17; Halperin and Heilemann, Double Down, pp. 11–12, 18–20.
33. Obama, remarks on ending the war in Iraq, 21 October 2011 (“the tide of war is receding”); Jodi Kantor, “Leaving Obama’s Shadow,” NYT, 10 November 2011; Obama’s 9 December interview with CBS’ Steve Kroft; Obama on 20/20, ABC, 23 December 2011; Jackson Lears, “A History of Disappointment,” London Review of Books, 5 January 2012, pp. 10–13; Kantor, The Obamas, pp. 76, 178, 185, 192, 213, 251, 275, 329; Connie Schultz, “Partners in Love and the Presidency,” NYT, 8 January 2012; Keach Hagey, “W.H. vs. Kantor: Overkill?,” Politico, 13 January 2012; Renshon, Barack Obama, pp. 181, 187; James Fallows, “Obama, Explained,” Atlantic, March 2012; Halperin and Heilemann, Double Down, pp. 54–58, 63–65; Todd, The Stranger, pp. 285–86.
34. Wolffe, The Message, p. 19; Jackie Calmes, “Obama’s Deficit Dilemma,” NYT, 27 February 2012; James Fallows, “Obama, Explained,” Atlantic, March 2012, pp. 54–70; Obama’s 1 March 2012 interview with Bill Simmons; Peter Wallsten et al., “Obama’s Evolution,” WP, 17 March 2012; David Maraniss, “Becoming Obama,” VanityFair.com, 2 May 2012, 9:30 A.M.; James Fallows, “The Making of the President,” NYT, 14 June 2012; Mike Godwin, “From the Choom Gang to the White House,” Reason, 18 June 2012; Darryl Pinckney, “Young Barry Wins,” NYRB, 16 August 2012; Nicholas Lemann, “The Cipher,” TNR, 25 October 2012, pp. 28–31; DJG interviews with Alex McNear, Genevieve Cook, Sheila Jager, and Sheila Quinlan.
35. Obama’s 9 May 2012 interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts; Eleveld, Don’t Tell Me to Wait, pp. 158, 254; Wear, Reclaiming Hope, pp. 142–56; Roberto Mangabeira Unger, “Beyond Obama,” YouTube, 22 May 2012; Fredrick Harris, “Still Waiting for Our First Black President,” WP, 3 June 2012; Harris, The Price of the Ticket, pp. 139, 154, 167; Jodi Kantor and Nicholas Confessore, “Leading Role in Obama ’08, But Backstage in ’12,” NYT, 15 July 2012; Harris, “The Price of a Black President,” NYT, 28 October 2012; “Oprah Talks to the Obamas,” O Magazine, November 2012 (July 2012); Mark Obama Ndesandjo, An Obama’s Journey, p. 299; DJG interview with Hermene Hartman.
36. Jane Mayer, “Schmooze or Lose,” TNY, 27 August 2012; Jo Becker, “The Other Power in the West Wing,” NYT, 2 September 2012; Dan Balz, “Obama Did Not Change Washington,” WP, 2 September 2012; Ryan Grim and Sam Stein, “Barack Obama Promised a New Kind of Politics, but Played the Same Old Game,” Huffington Post, 2 September 2012; John F. Harris and Jonathan Martin, “Barack Obama, the Conventional President,” Politico, 3 September 2012; Peter Baker, “4 Years Later, Scarred But Still Confident,” NYT, 6 September 2012; Harris and Alexander Burns, “Verdict: Obama Levels More Attacks,” Politico, 6 September 2012; Woodward, The Price of Politics, p. 81; Simon, P.S., p. 138; Ryan Lizza, “Let’s Be Friends,” TNY, 10 September 2012; Bob Herbert, “No More Excuses,” Huffington Post, 4 October 2012; Obama’s 12–13 September 2012 interview with CBS’ Steve Kroft; DeWayne Wickham, “Netanyahu Hedges His Political Bets,” USAT, 20 September 2012; Hunter Walker, “President Obama Parties with Jay Z and Beyoncé,” NYO, 18 September 2012; Ann Gearhart and Jason Horowitz, “Behind the Big-Dollar Fundraisers,” WP, 20 September 2012; Geoff Earle, “When O Met Z and Beyoncé Outdazzled Them Both,” NYP, 20 September 2012; Arnie Graf, “Barack and Mitt as I Knew Them,” NYDN, 28
September 2012; Jasmine Velasco, “Chicago’s Susan Crown,” Breitbart.com, 3 October 2012; David Maraniss, “Obama’s Way with Words,” WP, 14 October 2012; Alter, The Center Holds, p. 141,
37. Michael Lewis, “Obama’s Way,” Vanity Fair, October 2012; Glenn Thrush, “Barack Obama the Not-So-Happy Warrior,” Politico, 5 November 2012; Richard Stengel et al., “Setting the Stage for a Second Term,” Time, 19 December 2012; “Conspiracy Theories Prosper: 25% of Americans Are ‘Truthers,’” Fairleigh Dickinson University Public Mind Poll, 17 January 2013; Sheila Jager e-mail to DJG, 7 November 2012.
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