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NYC Libraries Face $82M Cut Over Two Years
MoCCA Art Fest Highlights Comics Creators 
Inside the LC Acquisition of Twitter Archive
St. Paul PL Clerk Arrested for Stealing 1400 Library Items
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S & S. 2010. c.464p. index. ISBN 978-1-4391-0119-3. $28. POL SCI Alter’s book takes up where David Remnick’s The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama ends, closely scrutinizing all aspects of the Obama administration’s first year. For this “journalistic history,” Alter (senior editor, Newsweek; The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope) made use of over 200 interviews he conducted with legislators, staff, and President Obama himself. He assesses how successfully Obama has lived up to his own, and the public’s, high expectations for moving the country in new directions—especially away from economic catastrophe. Alter devotes several chapters to how the President and his economic point men, secretary of the treasury Timothy Geithner and Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council, framed domestic policy relating to the stimulus, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the bank and auto industry bailouts, and job creation. One of the book’s strongest features is its investigation of the healthcare debate and how first-year success for Obama became dependent upon passing healthcare legislation. Alter also writes rewardingly about life in the White House, with details of how the President spends his down time. Ultimately, Alter believes that Obama has received less credit than he deserves for saving the country from another Depression, but he faults Obama for not effectively using the bully pulpit to connect with a fearful public and evade conservative criticism and the right-wing media. VERDICT Although the details about economic policies may overwhelm the general reader, this thorough account will appeal to serious readers of current affairs and as a complement to Remnick’s book.—Karl Helicher, Upper Merion Twp. Lib., King of Prussia, PA Magazine Highlights
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