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REVIVAL THE WHITE HOUSE BOOK
 

Revival is the dramatic inside story of the defining period of the Obama White House. It is an epic tale that follows the president and his inner circle from the crisis of defeat to historic success.
 
Over the span of an extraordinary two months in the life of a young presidency, Obama and his senior aides engaged in a desperate struggle for survival that stands as the measure of who they are and how they govern.
 
Bestselling Obama biographer Richard Wolffe draws on unrivaled access to the West Wing to write a natural sequel to his critically acclaimed book about the president and his campaign. Starting at the first anniversary of the inauguration, Wolffe paints a portrait of a White House at work under exceptional strain across a sweeping set of challenges: from health care reform to a struggling economy, from two wars to terrorism.


WHAT THEY’RE SAYING “A revealing look at life in the West Wing. Author and MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe gained extraordinary access to the president and his advisers for his explosive new book.” - Carl Quintanilla, TODAY Show, NBC “If your gift list includes both Obama loyalists craving encouragement and Obama opponents craving insight into their adversaries’ thinking, consider Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House (Crown) by Richard Wolffe of MSNBC and Newsweek fame. This product of exclusive interviews with the president and his inner circle is a liberal commentator’s account of what’s gone wrong in this administration’s first two years and its outlook for the future.” - Pittsburgh Tribune Review “There’s a reason why few in Washington are calling the floundering President Obama the next Comeback Kid. That’s because unlike the most famous Comeback Kid of all, Bill Clinton, the Obama White House is riddled with self-doubt, finger-pointing, and a lack of direction. “That’s part of the assessment of a favored Obama White House reporter, Richard Wolffe, who spent two months winning insider interviews to write his second account of the Obama administration, Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House. “In his sequel to Renegade, Wolffe, a former Newsweek reporter, reveals that the White House staff is split between revivalists who want to return to the weighty theme of change and survivalists who want to play the old game of compromise and combat. But what he also does in the book is point out the problems of the administration that have led to the current disarray and lack of confidence that the president can stage a comeback in time for his reelection.” - Paul Bedard, US News and World Report