David Remnick
Town Hall Seattle
Seattle, WA
David Remnick worked as a reporter for The Washington Post for ten years, including four as Moscow correspondent. He joined The New Yorker as a writer in 1992 and has edited the magazine since 1998. His last book, King of the World, a best-selling work on the evolution of Cassius Clay into Muhammad Ali in the midst of the civil-rights movement, was Time magazines top non-fiction book of 1998. Lenins Tomb, which covered the fall of the Soviet Union, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994, Remnick is also the author of Resurrection and two collections of his New Yorker pieces: The Devil Problem & Other Stories and Reporting.
Remnicks latest book, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, is a sweeping and deeply reported look at both the life of the 44th President and the complex saga of race in America that led to his historic election. For this biography, Remnick conducted hundreds of on-the-record interviews to write the fullest narrative possible of a sitting President. He relies on conversations with family, friends, teachers, professors, mentors, donors, and rivals of Barack Obamaas well as with the President himself. His sources include not only members of Obamas team, but also more complicated figures in his story such as the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Bobby Rush, Jesse Jackson, and Bill Ayers. The Bridge also includes correspondence by Obama as well as letters written by the most important influence in his life, his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, all published here for the first time. In the Prologue to The Bridge, Obama, who has just announced his candidacy, goes to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to pay homage to the civil-rights generation, the Moses generation, and declares himself the leader of the new generation, the Joshua generation. Reflecting on the President's unique place in history, the veteran congressman and civil-rights leader John Lewis told Remnick, Barack Obama is what comes at the end of that bridge in Selma.
Note: Doors open at 6:45pm to begin seating and the event begins at 7:30pm.
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| Start: | Monday Apr 19, 2010 7:30 PM | | End: | Monday Apr 19, 2010 9:30 PM |
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Town Hall Seattle
1119 Eigth Ave
Seattle, WA 98101
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