

Obama
An Oral History
Author: Brian Abrams
Narrator: Tom Parks, Fred Stella, Emily Sutton-Smith
Unabridged: 11 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 07/10/2018
Author: Brian Abrams
Narrator: Tom Parks, Fred Stella, Emily Sutton-Smith
Unabridged: 11 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 07/10/2018
Brian Abrams is the author of three bestselling Kindle Singles oral histories: And NOW…An Oral History of Late Night with David Letterman, 1982–1993; Gawker: An Oral History; and Die Hard: An Oral History. Abrams has written for the Washington Post Magazine, Time, and The Lowbrow Reader. He lives in New York City. You can visit www.brianlabrams.com for more information and follow the author on Twitter @BrianAbrams.
This feels fairly slight, because 8 years in 400 pages isn't really enough. But it's full of interesting tidbits about Mr. Obama and the process of serving with him for however many years each person stayed. It'll also make you sad as hell, because two years later, we are mired in a hellish hellscape......more
Overall, I enjoyed reading this book. It was in turns a reminder of better days (for those of a left-leaning political persuasion) and a reminder that it wasn't all rainbows and sunshine. There were no scandals, and life-changing acts of legislation passed during Obama's tenure (DACA, the Affordable......more
Three stars for the book itself, plus one extra for the experience of remembering what it was like to have a thoughtful and principled administration for eight of the last eighteen years. I usually enjoy oral histories. This one could have definitely used more explanatory paragraphs to break up topic......more