The Amateur

Think you know the real Barack Obama? You dontnot until youve read The Amateur In this stunning exposé, bestselling author Edward Kleina contributing editor to Vanity Fair, former foreign editor of Newsweek, and former editor-in-chief of the New York Times Magazinepulls back the curtain on one of the most secretive White Houses in history. He reveals a callow, thin-skinned, arrogant president with messianic dreams of grandeur supported by a cast of true-believers, all of them united by leftist politics and an amateurish understanding of executive leadership. In The Amateur youll discoverWhy the so-called centrist Obama is actually in revolt against the values of the society he was elected to leadWhy Bill Clinton loathes Barack Obama and tried to get Hillary to run against him in 2012The spiteful rivalry between Michelle Obama and Oprah WinfreyHow Obama split the Kennedy familyHow Obama has taken more of a personal role in making foreign policy than any president since Richard Nixonwith disastrous resultsHow Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett are the real powers behind the White House throneThe Amateur is a reporters book, buttressed by nearly 200 interviews, many of them with the insiders who know Obama best.