Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (735 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062568450 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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David has also written for The Onion, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and the New York Times. He lives in Washington with his girlfriend and their two goldfish, Humphrey and Camille. David Litt entered the White House in 2011 and left in 2016 as a special assistant to the president
And boy, do we need it.” (Keegan-Michael Key)“David Litt is brilliant. “A fast, funny ride through the halls of power.” (Kirkus)“By turns moving and hilarious, David Litt’s rollicking account of his journey from campaign field grunt to presidential speechwriter is an irresistible read.” (David Axelrod, former Senior Advisor to Barack Obama and author of Believer: My Forty Years in Politics)“David Litt has done the impossible: written a smart, insightful, and funny White House memoir you don’t have to be a political junkie to love. I’ve gotten to witness firsthand some of the work he did for President Obama at past White House Correspondents Dinners an
Remember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of in unhinged tweets? David Litt does. Full of hilarious stories and told in a truly original voice, Thanks, Obama is an exciting debut about what it means – personally, professionally, and politically – to grow up.. With a humorists’ eye for detail, he describes what it’s like to accidentally trigger an international incident or nearly set a president’s hair aflame. And he argues that, despite the current political climate, the politics championed by Barack Obama will outlive the presidency of Donald Trump. David Litt was one of those twenty-somethings. In his comic, coming-of-age memoir, he takes us back to the Obama years – and charts a path forward in the age of TrumpMore than any other presidency, Barack Obama’s eight years in the White House were defined by young people – twenty-somethings who didn’t have much experience in politics (or anything