Only later did we learn the full extent.
But it was a school.
[Or] you could get angry about where we fell short.
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Its the latest addition to an ever-expanding line of nonfiction on the most recently completed presidential administration.
Abrams stands counter to those behind the salacious tell-alls and wistful memoirs that continue to nab headlines.
Indeed, he never worked for Obama or even stepped foot in the White House.
Instead, the veteran journalist offers an independent, unauthorized though not quite unbiased depiction.
He wishes to inform audiences unfamiliar with, say, House bill H.R.
3590 (a.k.a the Affordable Care Act), offering comprehensive, process-heavy background thats compelling in its detail.
But Abrams isnt quite lamenting their absence.
(He likewise purchased a copy of Michael WolffscontroversialTrump White House best-sellerFire and Fury.)
We live in an age obviously where the content is snorted and is no longer smoked, Abrams says.
Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez lambasts Obama a longtime friend for sidelining immigration reform.
Senate Democrats passed an immigration reform bill June 27, 2013, pleasing Gutierrez and advocacy groups.
Then, abruptly, the momentum stopped.
The bill didnt make it out of the House, pushing the ball on immigration farther away.
I wasnt aware that the months that this book would come out that we would haveconcentration camps for babies.
Had Hillary Clinton won, Abrams says most of the narrative would remind intact.
Would an Obama oral history be as effective in year 2026 as now, assuming wed all be alive?
Theres a reason I was assigned an Obama book, and I wasnt assigned a book about Calvin Coolidge.
