Richard Wolffe
Autor/a de Renegade: The Making of a President
Sobre l'autor
Richard L. Wolffe was born on September 17, 1968 in Birmingham, England. He graduated from Oxford University in 1992 with a degree in English and French literature. Wolffe worked for the Financial Times as a senior journalist and joined Newsweek in 2002 as a diplomatic correspondent. He was also a mostra'n més White House correspondent, covering the Howard Dean and John Kerry campaigns in the 2004 presidential election, plus Barack Obama's 2008 campaign. In 2009 Wolffe joined a business advisory firm, Public Strategies, in the role of Senior Strategist. He has been featured as a political analyst for MSNBC, Meet the Press, CNN, Fox News, TODAY, the BBC, and the CBC. He also appeared in HBO's documentaries on the Obama and 2000 Bush campaigns. Wolffe co-authored The Victim's Fortune and two Spanish cookbooks, and he has written for food magazines including Food Arts and Food & Wine. He is the author of Renegade: The Making of a President. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Richard Wolffe
Codename - Renegade: The Inside Account of How Obama Won the Biggest Prize in Politics (2010) 10 exemplars
Revival 2.0: How the Obama White House Is Making Its Political Comeback (Kindle Single) (2011) 7 exemplars
Tapas: A Taste of Spain in America 2 exemplars
Renegade (Unabridged) Part 2 1 exemplars
Renegade (Unabridged) Part 1 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Wolffe, Richard
- Data de naixement
- 1968-09-17
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Llocs de residència
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Educació
- Oxford University
- Professions
- journalist
- Organitzacions
- Financial Times
Newsweek
MSNBC
Membres
Ressenyes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 8
- També de
- 2
- Membres
- 406
- Popularitat
- #59,889
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 14
- ISBN
- 23
- Llengües
- 1
- Preferit
- 1
There is a decent section reviewing how advertising has impacted presidential campaigns which helpfully sets the context.
Obama "is a newcomer who promised to upend the status quo but seemed all too ready to live within its conventions and limitations. Inside the White House, he never resolved those tensions, especially if they involved the personal conflicts on his political team. He centralized decision-making around himself and his inner circle, but his decisions were often painfully slow in coming. He aired on the safe side of big decisions for too long before edging into the risk filled choices that presented themselves inside the Oval Office. Whether it his decision to arm the rebel forces in Syria or to support same-sex marriage,
Obama was a constant source of frustration and mystification for his supporters inside and outside the administration. On Capitol Hill, even Democratic members complained that his absence and coldness left them struggling to understand his motives and his management style: if they didn't love him or fear him, why should they take a bullet for him? They were unclear about where he was headed, so they focused on the lack of personal outreach. But the reality was that personal contact left them no clearer about his true identity and purpose (pp. 245-46).… (més)