Barack Obama Biography 'The Bridge' By New Yorker Editor David Remnick Due Out In April

Barack Obama's life and political evolution will be detailed in a new biography of the president called "The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama" by New Yorker editor David Remnick, publisher Knopf announced today.

The book relies on hundreds of interviews with Obama himself as well as his friends, family, professors, mentors, and rivals, and includes the president's letters as well as letters written by his mother, all never before published.

In addition to following Obama's life story and his political journey, "The Bridge" examines "the complex saga of race in America that led to his historic election," Knopf said. The book focuses on the president's complicated racial identity, and Remnick uses controversial figures like Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson, and Bill Ayers as his sources as well as the more traditionally accepted members of Obama's team.

David Remnick is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the fall of the Soviet Union, "Lenin's Tomb," as well as the bestselling "King of the World." "The Bridge" will be available on April 6, according to Knopf.

In an amusing slip, The New York Times misquoted Remnick in their coverage of the new biography, calling "The Bridge" a "pimped out" version of an earlier article Remnick had written, when in fact he had called it a "pumped up" version.

Comments

[Tags]

10:04 AM on 02/25/2010

It would be a little early for a biography. Obama's greatest accomplishments are ahead of him.

At this point I'd call it "The Bridge, So Far."

[Plusorminus30]

04:52 AM on 02/23/2010

Due tell...April 1st? You're kidding right?

April Fool?

[KIVPossum]

03:04 AM on 02/23/2010

Didn't take long for the rethugs to pounce on this one.

[norman60]

02:02 AM on 02/23/2010

Haters of Obama should exit this liberal blog.
They are poisonous, rabid, disrespectful of the president and a smoke in my eys.
I want the editors of Huff post to re-define what this blog stands for.

[Plusorminus30]

04:46 AM on 02/23/2010

I ain't leaving!

[LiberalLee]

08:23 AM on 02/23/2010

That's OK, we can ignore your comments and opinions whether you leave or not.

[lacrabclaw]

01:27 AM on 02/24/2010

Bravo! We must abolish all opposing views! They challenge our groupthink.
...cooonnfoooorrrrmmmmm...

[GiannaX]

09:49 PM on 02/24/2010

Hate and fearmongering is not challenging to anyone's "groupthink".

[ecoalex]

11:59 PM on 02/22/2010

The Bridge to corporate Audacity is more like it.He won't have his Black brothers and sisters vote enmasse like he did before.Gawd did he let so many down.He didn't lead,he was led by his nose by the corporate masters.

[Tackora]

11:38 PM on 02/22/2010

With the inauguration tears gone from my face and hopes shattered, the only literary piece I might be willing to read about Obama is a documentary and historic account of his miserable failings.

[LiberalLee]

04:20 PM on 02/23/2010

What did you expect? Everything all done and tied up in a nice package with a bow on it in 15 months?
Grow up.

[BrwnSknGurl4]

11:19 PM on 02/22/2010

The photo is smoking! My President looks GOOD....:)

[thinklib]

11:05 PM on 02/22/2010

Why would anyone want to read, hear, or see anything to do with Obama any more?

Overkill.

Get him out of my face.

[tisfilm]

02:40 AM on 02/23/2010

do you read palin's book?

[LiberalLee]

08:24 AM on 02/23/2010

Probably. I have a friend that keeps it in her bathroom...In case they run out of TP.

[aaronsgram]

10:00 PM on 02/22/2010

We haven't had enough already?

[idontknowmuch]

09:49 PM on 02/22/2010

I will read it.

[ramsfan]

09:38 PM on 02/22/2010

its about time, i mean we know all that he has accomplished in office, but i find myself wondering...what does this man do in his personal time? Maybe he could also start doing some more tv talk shows as well...

[MegWe]

07:31 PM on 02/22/2010

I can't wait to read this. Especially the letters- his and his mother's. I will be ordering early.......

[LiberalLee]

07:14 PM on 02/22/2010

Look at all the littletr0//ies making sad little jokes.
sigh

How boringly expected of them, and how boringly similar.
I guess originality doesn't come easy, unlike hyperbole, BS and FNC talking points.

[CampCalifornia]

07:52 PM on 02/22/2010

Bored is:

Bashing other people cuz you don't have a life.

[LiberalLee]

07:58 PM on 02/22/2010

Thank you for making my point. Too bad it would sail over the heads of folk like Beck, Palin, Limbaugh and the other bash-happy righties.

[tisfilm]

02:43 AM on 02/23/2010

Do you read palin's book?

[CampCalifornia]

05:21 PM on 02/22/2010

I bet he sells at least 5 copies.

[terry63]

08:22 PM on 02/22/2010

Shortest book I ever read.

[LiberalLee]

10:16 PM on 02/22/2010

Sorry little Camper, but you snarl as if Obama had written the book.

[Ljilja]

04:44 PM on 02/22/2010

It seems a bit soon for a biography, doesn't it?

http://graciouslivingdaybyday.com/

[Martin Chuzzlewit]

04:47 PM on 02/22/2010

Heck. no, they already gave him the Nobel Prize.

The constant and massive effort to portray his competence is inversely proportional to its quantity.

[mamazboy]

08:02 PM on 02/22/2010

I guess it's never too early for hagiography. Expect ringing praise of Obama, despite the fact that he's turned out to be more of a force for stasis than change, thanks to his corporate cronies and connections. It's all very sad.

[LiberalLee]

08:32 AM on 02/23/2010

And Sarah wrote ( ahem-ghost-wrote) a little book all about her career of pageant-walking, quitting, messing up town budgets, running for a different office... Quitting... quitting...

I'll bet that's your idea of competence.