6/1/2023 0 Comments Renegade by richard wolffe![]() In retrospect, despite hundreds of campaign books since then, no one else has been able to do the same. It has been imitated many times since, even by White, who dutifully put himself through the same paces every four years, never replicating the energy of the original. ![]() Kennedy’s election was a political as well as a literary watershed: not long after the election, Theodore White made it big with the publication of The Making of the President, 1960, a classic on political reporting that covered the campaign with a novelist’s sense of drama coupled with astonishing detail. Kennedy on the charisma barometer, and a Camelot-style report on his remarkable campaign was inevitable. One of the book’s most interesting episodes reveals that it was Obama who came up with the idea of a tome, nudging Wolffe with a casual remark - “Why can’t you write a book about it? Like Theodore White. When candidate Barack Obama threw his hat in the 2008 presidential sweepstakes, he, ever so conscious of history, allowed Richard Wolffe, a senior White House correspondent of Newsweek, to travel with him and be at his side till election day. ![]() ![]() Renegade: The making of Barack Obama By Richard Wolffe, Virgin, Rs 490 ![]()
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