The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
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The Chicago Tribune endorsed Harold Washington: Leanita McClain, Washington Post, July 24, 1983.
Haskel Levy, an aide to Bernard Epton: "This American Life," # 376, Chicago Public Radio, March 13, 2009.
"I am not ashamed of being white!": Travis, An Autobiography of Black Politics, p. 602.
A young reporter for the Tribune: Rivlin, Fire on the Prairie, p. 191.
When asked on a radio call-in show: "This American Life," # 84, Chicago Public Radio, November 9, 2007.
At his victory celebration: Travis, An Autobiography of Black Politics, p. 610.
"He never became what I would consider": "This American Life," # 84, Chicago Public Radio, November 9, 2007.
One winter morning: Knoepfle, After Alinsky, p. 36.
The menace of the place: Obama, Dreams from My Father, p. 165.
Allen interviewed residents: Martha Allen, Chicago Reporter, 15, no. 6 (June 1986).
Obama wrote that the trip: Obama, Dreams from My Father, p. 242.
Walter Jacobson did a report: Martha Allen, Chicago Reporter, 15, no. 7 (July 1986).
In a sermon that deeply affected Obama: Wright, What Makes You So Strong?, p. 97.
"When I was growing up": Ibid., p. 28.
At first, he told Roger Wilkins: Roger Wilkins, "Frontline," PBS, June 16, 1987.
After enduring the humiliations: Cone, Black Theology and Black Power, p. 32.
In an America that continued: Ibid.
Blackness, for Cone: Ibid., p. 37.
By way of explanation: Ibid., p. 13.
The spirituals, Cone writes: Ibid., p. 100
In The Negro Church: Frazier, The Negro Church in America, p. 149.
For instance, to explain: Jeremiah Wright, N.A.A.C.P. Benefit, Detroit, Michigan, April 27, 2008.
"Some people say": Obama, Dreams from My Father, p. 283.
In 1981, a committee at Trinity: www.tucc.org.
When conservative critics suggested: Manya A. Brachear and Bob Secter, Chicago Tribune, February 6, 2007.
On November 25, 1987: Obama, Dreams from My Father, p. 287.
In many ways, Obama revered Washington: Ibid., p. 288.
Just after he left his job as an organizer: Knoepfle, After Alinsky, p. 36.
"We tend to think of organizing": Ibid., p. 133.
"They are not necessarily": Ibid., p. 134.
To disdain politics, he told the panel: Ibid., p. 133.
Chapter Five: Ambition
"I would learn about interest rates": Obama, Dreams from My Father, p. 276.
Obama said that Harvard Law School: Elise O'Shaughnessy, "Harvard Law Reviewed," Vanity Fair, June 1990.
When Derrick Bell: Fox Butterfield, New York Times, May 21, 1990.
"We felt as if we had the hardest": Noam Scheiber, "Crimson Tide," The New Republic, February 4, 2009.
Obama lived much as he had: Michael Levenson and Jonathan Saltzman, Boston Globe, January 28, 2007.
Beyond the "boot camp": Turow, One L, p. 300.
"If anybody had walked by": Michael Levenson and Jonathan Saltzman, Boston Globe, January 28, 2007.
A group would go together: Ibid.
"In law school, we had a seminar": Larissa MacFarquhar, "The Conciliator," The New Yorker, May 7, 2007.
Ian Macneil, the visiting contracts professor: Paul Hutcheon, Sunday Herald, June 8, 2008.
Not a few of his colleagues were shocked: Stewart Yerton, "Midas Touch in the Ivory Tower: The Croesus of Cambridge," American Lawyer 16, no. 3 (1994).
In May, 1915, The Crisis: Kluger, Simple Justice, p. 105.
"Charles Houston became": Ibid., p. 106.
Houston was committed to purpose: McNeil, Groundwork, p. 84.
As Houston's biographer Genna Rae McNeil: Ibid., p. 7.
After the great victory in Brown: Lisa Krause, "Charles Houston: The Man Who Killed Jim Crow," National Geographic, February 7, 2001.
In 1991, Obama filmed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L489QHEQa_4.
Frankfurter once said: Kerlow, Poisoned Ivy, p. 20.
Obama nearly botched his bid: Michael Levenson and Jonathan Saltzman, Boston Globe, January 28, 2007.
"Honestly, we were just very polarized": Christine Spurell interview, "Frontline," PBS, October 14, 2008.
Robinson, like everyone at the firm: Michelle Obama interview with Suzanne Malveaux, CNN, January 1, 2009.
"He sounded too good to be true": Mendell, Obama: From Promise to Power, p. 93.
To her surprise: Michelle Obama interview with Suzanne Malveaux, CNN, January 1, 2009.
Besides, she and Obama were two: Mendell, Obama: From Promise to Power, p. 94.
"Man, she is hot!": Carol Felsenthal, "The Making of a First Lady," Chicago Magazine, February 2009.
They also had their first kiss: Barack Obama, "My First Date with Michelle," O, The Oprah Magazine, February 2007.
"Probably by the end of that date": Michelle Obama interview with Suzanne Malveaux, CNN, January 1, 2009.
"When you grow up as a black kid": Peter Slevin, Princeton Alumni Weekly, February 18, 2009.
"It was my secret shame": Mundy, Michelle, p. 67.
"My experiences at Princeton": Michelle Robinson, "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community," undergraduate thesis, Princeton University, p. 2.
When they were first: Liza Mundy, Washington Post, August 12, 2007.
Obama, for his part: Ibid.
"Most of my peers at the Law Review": Ibid.
"Before I could say a word, another black student": Tammerlin Drummond, Los Angeles Times, March 19, 1990.
Interviewed for the New York Times: Fox Butterfield, New York Times, February 6, 1990.
Obama gave many interviews: Jodi Kantor, New York Times, January 28, 2007.
Nearly all the articles: Ryan Lizza, "Making It," The New Yorker, July 21, 2008.
Obama told the Boston Globe: Linda Matchan, Boston Globe, February 15, 1990.
She argued that goals of tolerance: Jeffrey Ressner and Ben Smith, Politico, June 23, 2008.
Bell wrote, in "Serving Two Masters": Derrick Bell, "Serving Two Masters," Yale Law Journal, 1976.
"Black people will never gain": Bell, Faces at the Bottom of the Well, p. 12.
On April 9, 1990: Letter from Derrick Bell to Robert Clark, April 9, 1990.
apologetic for failing to realize: Ibid.
Dressed in khakis and a light-blue dress shirt: "Frontline," PBS, January 19, 2009.
"One of the luxuries of going": Tammerlin Drummond, Los Angeles Times, March 19, 1990.
Obama wrote to the Record: Barack Obama, Harvard Law Record 91, no. 7 (November 16, 1990).
"I have no way of knowing": Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, no. 30 (Winter 2000-2001).
In the annual parody issue: Jodi Kantor, New York Times, January 28, 2007.
At Harvard, Obama secretly: Obama, Dreams from My Father, p. 437.
"Well, no, actually": Janny Scott interview, "Frontline," PBS, October 14, 2008.
Chapter Six: A Narrative of Ascent
"He spent a lot of time": James L. Merriner, "Friends of O," Chicago Magazine, June 2008.
"Today, we see hundreds": Vernon Jarrett, Chicago Sun-Times, July 11, 1992.
In an interview with the Chicago Reader: Interview, Chicago Reader, March 17, 2000.
Crain's Chicago Business: "Forty Under Forty," Crain's Chicago Business, September 27, 1993.
When a reporter who was writing: Gretchen Reynolds, "Vote of Confidence," Chicago Magazine, January 1993.
"All my life, I have been stitching together": Mariana Cook, "A Couple in Chicago," The New Yorker, January 19, 2009.
Her associate Jay Acton: Robert Draper, "Barack Obama's Work in Progress," GQ, November 2009.
After his wedding and honeymoon: Ibid.
In a preface to the 2004: Obama, Dreams from My Father, p. ix.
There are more than six thousand: Gates, The Classic Slave Narratives, p. ix.
"Deprived of access to literacy":
Gates, Bearing Witness, p. 4.
He reads histories by Will Durant: Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 178.
In Soul on Ice: Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 31.
Claude Brown told an audience: Gates, Bearing Witness, p. 4.
Even Sammy Davis, Jr.: Davis, Yes I Can, p. 63.
"Barack is who he says he is": Wolffe, Renegade, p. 156.
He signals his awareness: Obama, Dreams from My Father, p. xvi.
While the book is based on his journals: Ibid., p. xvii.
W. E. B. DuBois set a standard: Du Bois, The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois, p. 12.
When the young Frederick Douglass: Douglass, Autobiographies, p. 60.
"Of my ancestry": Washington, Up from Slavery, p. 1.
Obama's reading of black memoirists: Obama, Dreams from My Father, p. 85.
"His repeated acts of self-creation": Ibid., p. 86.
Obama was disturbed: Ibid.
"We're all black to the white man": Malcolm X, Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 206.
Obama, who has been raised: Obama, Dreams from My Father, p. 286.
As Obama writes: Obama, Dreams from My Father, p. xvi.
Veteran residents of the building: Jennifer 8 Lee, New York Times, January 30, 2008.
Obama places himself: Obama, Dreams from My Father, p. 3.
His "kindred spirit": Ibid., p. 5.
As he is cooking his eggs: Ibid.
When Obama writes a new preface: Ibid., p. xi.
When he is writing about: Ibid., p. 18.
His mother, Ann: Ibid., p. 20.
"Racism was part of that past": Ibid., p. 21.
Obama is also wise to Hawaii: Ibid., p. 23.
In Chapter 2, he recalls a day: Ibid., p. 28.
During the Presidential campaign: Kirsten Scharnberg and Kim Barker, Chicago Tribune, March 25, 2007.
The scene cannot help: Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 54.
"My mother's confidence": Obama, Dreams from My Father, p. 50.
When they would talk: Ibid., p. 80.
Poignantly, Obama: Ibid., p. xv.
"We were in goddamned Hawaii": Ibid., p. 82.
"As it was, I learned to slip": Ibid.
Chapter 5, which covers: Ibid., p. 92.
He is reminded again: Ibid., p. 99.
The role model who shocks: Ibid., p. 104.
"Then, as if the sight": Ibid., p. 178.
"I tried to imagine": Ibid., p. 183.
but he worries: Ibid., p. 203.
In New York, he tells us: Ibid., p. 210.
As he sits in the pews: Ibid., p. 294.
He is a "Westerner": Ibid., p. 301.
On the road between Madrid: Ibid., p. 303.
"For the first time in my life": Ibid., p. 305.
"All of this while a steady procession": Ibid., p. 311.
When she tells a story: Ibid., p. 215.
"I felt as if my world": Ibid., p. 220.
Sitting with his relatives: Ibid., p. 318.
"It was a savage scene": Ibid., p. 356.
Would a British officer: Ibid., p. 368.
"First there was Miwiru": Ibid., p. 394.
Onyango, Sarah tells him: Ibid., p. 398.
Soon, the white man's presence: Ibid.
"This was it, I thought to myself": Ibid., p. 427.
"Standing before the two graves": Ibid.
"For a long time I sat": Ibid., p. 429.
A history teacher named Rukia Odero: Ibid., p. 433.
In the words of the Declaration of Independence: Ibid., p. 437.
"To a happy ending": Ibid., p. 442.
At Eso Won Books: Robert Draper, "Barack Obama's Work in Progress," GQ, November 2009.
His biographer Edmund Morris: Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. xxxiii.
"Motives of delicacy": Marshall, The Life of George Washington, Volume 2, p. 136.
"People went by, and he took no account": Howells, The Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, p. 31.
"American campaign biographies": Jill Lepore, "Bound for Glory," The New Yorker, October 20, 2008.
Obama himself admitted: Janny Scott, New York Times, May 18, 2008.
For instance, Cashill wrote: Jack Cashill, American Thinker, June 28, 2009.
A writer for the National Review's popular blog: Andy McCarthy, The Corner, October 11, 2008.
Writing elevated a slave from non-being: Andrews, African-American Autobiography, p. 9.
In Frederick Douglass's narrative: Douglass, Autobiographies, p. 217.
"Mr. Douglass has very properly": Ibid., p. 7.
Chapter Seven: Somebody Nobody Sent
"So he tested these truths": Bellow, Dean's December, p. 165.
He appeared in court: Abdon Pallasch, Chicago Sun-Times, December 17, 2007.
"I was one of the better writers": Ibid.
A number of progressive groups: Ibid.
When, during the Presidential campaign: Jodi Kantor, New York Times, July 30, 2008.
During the Presidential campaign: Larissa MacFarquhar, "The Conciliator," The New Yorker, May 7, 2007.
In his memoir, Livin' the Blues: Davis, Livin' the Blues, p. 332.
In 1990, one of Rezko's vice-presidents: Tim Novak, Chicago Sun-Times, April 23, 2007.
Obama did not do much real-estate work: Ibid.
The work was so dull: Don Terry, Chicago Tribune Magazine, July 27, 2008.
In July, 1991: Jonathan Becker, "Barack's Rock," Vogue, October 2008.
"She is made for you": Ibid.
Savage had also referred to Ron Brown: Christopher Drew and Ray Gibson, Chicago Tribune, August 14, 1994.
Now, as he watched his brief career: William Safire, New York Times, October 2, 1994.
Admitting that he made "mistakes": "Larry King Live," CNN, September 1, 1995.
"I married you because you're cute": Jodi Kantor, New York Times, November 1, 2009.
"I wasn't a proponent of politics": Scott Helman, Boston Globe, October 12, 2007.
Alan Dobry, a former Democratic: David Jackson and Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, April 4, 2007.
"I hadn't publicly announced": Ibid.
Palmer doesn't dispute that: Ibid.
"I'm absolutely certain": Ibid.
"Pray for Mel Reynolds": Kevin Knapp, Hyde Park Herald, July 5, 1995.
In the last paragraph: Ibid.
He received his first campaign contributions: Tim Novak, Chicago Sun-Times, April 23, 2007.
In 2005, long before Obama: warrenpeacemuse.blogspot.com.
One African-American politician: Hank De Zutter, "What Makes Obama Run," The Chicago Reader, December 8, 1995.
"Now all of this may be": Ibid.
On September 19, 1995: Monice Mitchell, Hyde Park Herald, October 4, 1995.
"In this room, Harold Washington": Ibid.
"What I saw was a powerful demonstration": Hank de Zutter, The Chicago Reader, December 8, 1995.
The Hyde Park Herald reported: Kevin Knapp, Hyde Park Herald, October 25, 1995.
The Defender reported: Ryan Lizza, "Making It," The New Yorker, July 21, 2008.
Writing in the Defender: Ibid.
That day, Obama told the Tribune: Thomas Hardy, Chicago Tribune, December 19, 1995.
This is a routine, and often effective: David Jackson and Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, April 4, 2007.
"To my mind, we were just abiding": Ibid.
"If you can get 'em, get 'em": Ibid.
"It was very awkward": Ibid.
"He was a classic charismatic leader": Hank De Zutter, "What Makes Obama Run," The Chicago Reader, December 8, 1995.
In a tone of rueful apology: Ibid.
"In Chicago, for instance": Adolph Reed, Jr., "The Curse of Community," Village Voice, January 16, 1996.
"It's probably a terrible thing to say": Editorial, Chicago Tribune, December 6, 2002.
The minute he took over: Ibid.
One Republican, Bill Brady: Rick P
earson and Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, May 3, 2007.
He said, "When it turned out": Ibid.
Trotter called Obama "the knight": Ibid.
In the spring of 1997: Barack Obama, Hyde Park Herald, April 16, 1997.
In other columns, he wrote about: Barack Obama, Hyde Park Herald, February 19, 1997; June 18, 1997; September 10, 1997; December 31, 1997.
During a debate, in Springfield: Ryan Lizza, "Making It," The New Yorker, July 21, 2008.
Chapter Eight: Black Enough
Their brand of black nationalism: Hampton and Fayer, Voices of Freedom, p. 353.
The Panthers adopted the uniform: Ibid., p. 351.
"The purpose of this counterintelligence endeavor": Ibid., p. 511.
"We'd go through political orientation": Ibid., p. 523.
"Chairman, chairman, wake up!": Ibid., p. 534.
The police held a press conference: Cohen and Taylor, American Pharaoh, p. 501.
"You see this man?": Frady, Jesse, p. 261.
Rush claimed that: Cohen and Taylor, American Pharaoh, p. 502.
The columnist Mike Royko: Ibid.
Bobby Rush said, "Hampton": Philip Caputo, Chicago Tribune, December 10, 1969.
The service ended with the singing: Ibid.
A few weeks later: Hampton and Fayer, Voices of Freedom, p. 538.
At a speech to Chicago college students: Scott Stewart, Chicago Sun-Times, February 21, 1999.
Soon after entering Congress: Scott Stewart, Chicago Sun-Times, February 21, 1999.
"The First Congressional District": Ted Kleine, "Is Bobby Rush in Trouble," The Chicago Reader, March 17, 2000.
Obama, Kappy Scates joked: Ben Calhoun, Chicago Public Radio, August 8, 2008.
The early poll showed Rush: Michael Weisskopf, "Obama: How He Learned to Win," Time, May 8, 2008.
That summer, Steve Neal: Steve Neal, Chicago Sun-Times, August 1, 1999.
"I'm not part of some longstanding": Greg Downs, Hyde Park Herald, September 29, 1999.
"Our responsibility--my responsibility": John McCormick and Peter Annin, "A Father's Anguished Journey," Newsweek, November 29, 1999.
"I know my faith is being tested": Ted Kleine, "Is Bobby Rush In Trouble," The Chicago Reader, March 17, 2000.
"I believe that this glorification": Ibid.
"What a bunch of gutless sheep": Editorial, Chicago Tribune, December 21, 1999.
In one of his columns: Barack Obama, Hyde Park Herald, January 12, 2000.