We see Obama wrestling with race and politics, as well as his former pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Renegade provides not only an account of Obama’s triumphs, but also examines his many personal and political trials.

From a teacher’s office in Iowa to the Oval Office in Washington, we see and hear Barack Obama with an immediacy and honesty never witnessed before. We fly on the candidate’s plane and ride in his bus on an odyssey across a country in crisis stand next to him at a bar on the night he secures the nomination and are backstage as he delivers his convention speech to a stadium crowd and a transfixed national audience. With cool self-discipline, calculated risk taking, and simple storytelling, Obama developed the strategies he would need to survive the onslaught of the Clintons and John McCain, and build a multimillion-dollar machine to win a historic contest.In Renegade, Richard Wolffe shares with us his front-row seat at Obama’s announcement to run for president on a frigid day in Springfield, and his victory speech on a warm night in Chicago. It explains how the politician who emerged in an extraordinary election learned the personal and political skills to succeed during his youth and early career.

Drawing on a dozen unplugged interviews with the candidate and president, as well as twenty-one months covering his campaign as it traveled from coast to coast, Richard Wolffe answers the simple yet enduring question about Barack Obama: Who is he? Based on Wolffe’s unprecedented access to Obama, Renegade reveals the making of a president, both on the campaign trail and before he ran for high office. But it is also a uniquely intimate portrait of the person behind the iconic posters and the Secret Service code name Renegade.

Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack Obama: a man wrestling with the momentous decision to run for the presidency, feeling torn about leaving behind a young family, and figuring out how to win the biggest prize in politics.This book is the previously untold and epic story of how a political newcomer with no money and an alien name grew into the world’s most powerful leader.

Renegade by richard wolffe