The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

by David Remnick

  Mario Cuomo, however: Ibid., p. 14.

  "When you are unkind to the homeless": Ibid., p. 48.

  "We are a hybrid people": Ibid., p. 76.

  "I never slept under": Ibid.

  "You know, people'd always ask": Ibid., p. 82.

  When Jesse was a boy: Ibid., p. 97.

  "Jesse ain't got no daddy": Ibid., p. 86.

  When he came to Greenville: Ibid., p. 91.

  "Jesse wanted to be Martin": Ibid., p. 209.

  "If I were a candidate": Andrew Sullivan, "Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters," The Atlantic, December 2007.

  According to a South Carolina paper: Ibid.

  "If Barack doesn't win Iowa": Mike Glover, Associated Press, September 27, 2007.

  Bill Clinton went: "The Charlie Rose Show," PBS, December 14, 2007.

  "You know, they said": Barack Obama, Des Moines, Iowa, January 3, 2008.

  An astonishing set of rhetorical gestures: Frady, Jesse, p. 306.

  Bill Clinton, he said: Michael Hill, Baltimore Sun, January 16, 2008.

  Chapter Fourteen: In the Racial Funhouse

  "I told him that I loved him": Steve Vogel, Washington Post, October 21, 2000.

  It offered a five-thousand-dollar-per-month: Christopher Cooper, Corey Dade, and Valerie Bauerlein, Wall Street Journal, January 23, 2008.

  He finally accepted a competing offer: Ibid.

  "I didn't know if I was going to live": Eric Ernst, (Sarasota, Florida) Herald Tribune, October 15, 2008.

  "All those nights I thought": Ibid.

  She wanted to "help": Barack Obama, National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, March 18, 2008.

  In mid-October, 2007: Katherine Q. Seelye, New York Times, October 14, 2007.

  "I've heard some folks say": Barack Obama, Manning, South Carolina, November 2, 2007.

  "Don't let people turn you around": Ben Smith, Politico, January 27, 2008.

  "What I remember most": Michelle Obama, Orangeburg, South Carolina, November 20, 2007.

  One state senator: Jim Davenport, Associated Press, February 13, 2007.

  "By itself, that single moment": Barack Obama, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, January 20, 2008.

  When, in a South Carolina debate: CNN Democratic Debate, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, January 21, 2008.

  In the same debate, Clinton: Ibid.

  It was such a charged evening: Heilemann and Halperin, Game Change, p. 206.

  One early sign that the 2008 race: Jason Horowitz, New York Observer, February 4, 2007.

  He brushed it off: CNN.com, January 31, 2007.

  Obama wanted to appear: Ibid.

  The mood among Obama's aides: Anne E. Kornblut, Washington Post, December 13, 2007.

  There was Robert Johnson: CNN, January 13, 2008.

  There was Hillary Clinton: Editorial, New York Times, January 9, 2008.

  The day before the New Hampshire primary: Abdon M. Pallasch, Chicago Sun-Times, January 9, 2008.

  Donna Brazile, who had been: Ben Smith, Politico, January 11, 2008.

  When it seemed that Obama: Steve Kornacki, New York Observer, January 26, 2008.

  "Do you personally have any": ABC News, July 4, 2008.

  Bill Clinton's frustration was so deep: CNN, April 22, 2008.

  In the wake of Super Tuesday: Sean Wilentz, "Race Man," The New Republic, February 27, 2008.

  Not long after Wilentz's article: Katherine Q. Seelye and Julie Bosman, New York Times, March 12, 2008.

  The comment of hers: Kathy Kiely and Jill Lawrence, USA Today, May 8, 2008.

  Charles Rangel: Richard Sisk and David Saltonstall, New York Daily News, May 9, 2008.

  Chapter Fifteen: The Book of Jeremiah

  Fox played the clips: Editorial, New York Post, March 14, 2008.

  Bob Herbert, in the New York Times: Bob Herbert, New York Times, April 3, 2008.

  Patricia Williams, in The Nation: Patricia Williams, "Let Them Eat Waffles," The Nation, May 1, 2008.

  "Wright's homiletics had the effect": Sharpley-Whiting, The Speech, p. 7.

  As recently as January, 2007: Manya A. Brachear, Chicago Tribune, January 21, 2007.

  At the Tribune session: Editorial, Chicago Tribune, March 16, 2008.

  To begin, Obama called: Barack Obama, National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, March 18, 2008.

  "I can no more disown him": Ibid.

  Obama's speech won: Editorial, New York Times, March 19, 2008; editorial, Washington Post, March 19, 2008.

  The right wing's response: "Fox News," March 18, 2008.

  "Have you heard the whole sermon": Jeremiah Wright, National Press Club, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2008.

  Speaking at an N.A.A.C.P. dinner: Jeremiah Wright, N.A.A.C.P., Detroit, Michigan, April 27, 2008.

  Interviewed by Cliff Kelley: "The Cliff Kelley Show," WVON, November 25, 2008.

  "He doesn't have a church": Ibid.

  As late as June, 2009: David Squires, Daily Press, June 10, 2009.

  He joked with his aides: Wolffe, Renegade, p. 184.

  That night, on NBC: NBC, May 6, 2008.

  Michael Eric Dyson: Michael Eric Dyson, "Obama's Rebuke of Absentee Black Fathers," Time, June 19, 2008.

  The novelist Ishmael Reed: Ishmael Reed, CounterPunch, June 24, 2008.

  On July 6th, Jesse Jackson: "The O'Reilly Factor," Fox News, July 6, 2008.

  Chapter Sixteen: "How Long? Not Long"

  "Your door is shut": McKay, The Complete Poems, p. 148.

  When his aides charged: Michael Shear and Dan Balz, Washington Post, July 30, 2008.

  When Obama told the St. Petersburg Times: Adam C. Smith, St. Petersburg Times, August 2, 2008.

  "His comments were clearly": CNN, August 3, 2008.

  After McCain lost: John McCain, Charleston, South Carolina, February 19, 2000.

  In early October: "Hannity's America," Fox News, October 5, 2008.

  "It is your character": McCain, Character Is Destiny, p. xi.

  In 2000, McCain had called: Brian Knowlton, New York Times, February 29, 2000.

  Jon Stewart, the host: David Grann, "The Fall," The New Yorker, November 17, 2008.

  "Our opponent," she said: CNN, October 4, 2008.

  McCain, using the same: David Grann, "The Fall," The New Yorker, November 17, 2008.

  Now, a month before the election: Politico, October 11, 2008.

  McCain issued a statement: David Grann, "The Fall," The New Yorker, November 17, 2008.

  Obama was disingenuous: Democratic Debate, National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, April 16, 2008.

  "On the Republican side": "Meet the Press," NBC, October 19, 2008.

  In a poll conducted by the BBC: BBC News, September 10, 2008.

  The Obama campaign: Jonathan D. Salant, "Bloomberg News," December 27, 2008.

  Derrick Z. Jackson: Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe, November 22, 2008.

  She was born: Barack Obama, Grant Park, Chicago, November 5, 2008.

  Chapter Seventeen: To the White House

  The records tell us: White House Historical Association, www.whitehousehistory.org.

  Three slaves at the White House: Ibid.

  "Can one imagine": Wills, Negro President, p. 213.

  "To the Southern-born": Bordewich, Washington: The Making of the American Capital, p. 191.

  On a given day: Robert J. Kapsch, "Building Liberty's Capital: Black Labor and the New Federal City," American Visions, February-March 1995.

  Jennings recalled Dolley: Jennings, A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison, p. 12.

  "I never saw him in a passion": Ibid., p. 17.

  "I was always with Mr. Madison": Ibid., p. 20.

  We do know that James Polk: William Seale, "Upstairs and Downstairs: The 19th Century White House," American Visions, February-March 1995.

  Keckley called slavery: Keckley, Behind the Scenes, p. 3.

  She was, she tells us: Ibid., p. 14.

  When her uncle: Ibid., p. 12.

>   The resulting pregnancy: Ibid., p. 16.

  Keckley understood well: Ibid., p. 15.

  She married but refused: Ibid., p. 20.

  Instead, she developed her skills: Ibid., p. 34.

  Mrs. Lincoln had spilled coffee: Ibid., p. 35.

  "You seem to be": Ibid., p. 39.

  On the evening: Ibid., p. 45.

  Almost immediately: Ibid., p. 46.

  Keckley describes Lincoln: Ibid.

  And in a scene of gothic strangeness: Ibid., p. 47.

  First, she was taken: Ibid., p. 83.

  "They made room for me": Ibid., p. 84.

  After paying her respects: Ibid.

  But after the book appeared: Carolyn Sorisio, "Unmasking the Genteel Performer: Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes and the Politics of Public Wrath," African American Review 34, no. 1 (2000).

  "Where will it end?": Fleischner, Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly, p. 317.

  In a letter to the New York Citizen: Ibid., p. 318.

  "To become President": Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition, p. 164.

  If Lincoln grew: Ibid., p. 165.

  As he wrote to Horace Greeley: Ibid., p. 169.

  The resulting document: Ibid.

  Even in August: Stauffer, Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, p. 17.

  "Your race are suffering": Ibid.

  As one of his biographers: Ibid., p. 6.

  His glance, Douglass recalled: Douglass, Autobiographies, p. 787.

  As Douglass went up the stairs: Stauffer, Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, p. 19.

  Writing many years later: Douglass, Autobiographies, p. 785.

  "Long lines of care": Ibid.

  Lincoln hardly satisfied: Ibid., p. 786.

  Douglass left Washington: Ibid., p. 798.

  As late as four decades after: New York Times, April 12, 1904.

  And in 1904: McNeil, Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights, p. xvi.

  In the days before Barack Obama was inaugurated: Peter Baker, "Obama's War Over Terror," The New York Times Magazine, January 17, 2010.

  Johnson spoke of: Johnson, James Weldon Johnson: The Complete Poems, p. 109.

  "God of our weary years": Joseph Lowery, Inaugural Benediction, Washington, D.C., January 20, 2009.

  "Even at the inauguration": Fox News, January 20, 2009.

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