Obama sympathiser writes a love story about Obama

What did you like best about Renegade? What did you like least?

The best thing about this book is it gives some idea on how the Obama mania caught fire. It describes how the campaign started, what it's strategy was (focus on Iowa), how he got fundraising (from Sheraton hotel owner family), and insights in behind the scenes of the campaign. The author was a reporter attached to the Obama campaign from when Obama first started his Presidential campaign.The terrible thing about the book is that the author is an Obama sympathiser, trying to brush or smoothen over many Obama flaws/falsehood e.g. executive with tax problems and from failing bank Timothy Geithner put in charge of the treasury and Obama originally faovurable to public finance for campaigning, when nominee refused and got money from the special interest - ie the bankers who caused the collapse who he gave money in the bailout and did not arrest. The author very rarely takes a critical view of the subject, making this a boring yawn of a book.

Would you recommend Renegade to your friends? Why or why not?

Not to my friends. I would recommend David Mariness Obama book, which is available on CD on Amazon - it gives more insight to the personality of Obama. Audible needs to get this.I have read many books on Obama - this is probably the weakest. Its just a book of quotes of Obama speeches, with some insight into the campaign, done in a positive spin by an Obama Sympathiser.

What aspect of Arthur Morey’s performance might you have changed?

Not the narrator's fault, but unfortunately the author of the book often quotes large segments of Obama rhetoric and speech, and the narrator does a terrible job of delivering quotes of speeches, mostly because he does not have Obama's voice. I suspected the author did this to increase the pages of his book, rather than present interesting insights and arguments, to add to the conversation about Obama.

Could you see Renegade being made into a movie or a TV series? Who would the stars be?

No.

Any additional comments?

renegade 1 : a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another 2 : an individual who rejects lawful or conventional behaviorNote neither the contation of renegade is positive. First, I got this book in 2009/2010 very early on in its release on Audible. I have just finished it in March 2017, although to be fair I re-listened since Jan 2017 - but it was so bad and boring that it felt very difficult at times to listen, due to the overall quotes of Obama speeches, and so pro-Obama, that the author admits it.In the epilogue at the end, the author admits that Obama was the one who told him to do a book, about the campaign, Obama even suckered him into it, noting that the author and him were similar as they were both mixed races - Obama - had black and white parents, the author of this book was from England and Morocco. After this charm offence, the author agreed to do it, and hence you have what you hold in your hands today - a biased uninteresting non-critical view of Obama. If I had known this at the beginning I would not have bought this book.The author is a rich upper class background - he went to an extremely expensive school in England, and then went to Oxford. He is from Britain, as a result, he cannot understand deeply the complexities of American issues, nor empathise with the American situation. He is lovestruck like many foreigners and Americans, with the Obama campaign during the time it ran. Wolffe is a "writer", not an "author". A writer often produces work which is often not compelling to the audience, but maybe only to the writer, and his small band of Merry men. A writer establishes events in his subject history, and quotes his subject, but does not give enough meaning to them. An author knows his audience, how to make it interesting to his audience, highlights drama, intrique and criticiques, defends, and tries to get a better understanding of his subject. An author who does this extremely well is David Mariness - First in His Class (on Bill Clinton) and Obama. Although people may have bought this book, due to the Obama intrique, I suspect many may have left it after a few chapters gathering dust on the shelves. Positive include some highlights behind the scenes of the campaign, and how a campaign is run. I will suggest if you are interested in becoming a politician, and need to learn how to set up a campaign and run, this would be interesting.Books on Obama I have read or listened to:1. Dreams from my father = Autobiography, with characters either made up or amalgamated. 2. David Mariness Obama - Best book out there. Obama from his grandfather to just before Harvard3. Obama by Mendel - Great book written by reporter from Chicago newspaper. Obama from childhood to university.4. This book5. Audacity of Hope - written just after Obama became senator. This book is in last place, in summary, just do the excessive writing to add more pages in the book will appear.

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