David Mendell, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, began writing about urban issues and politics for the Chicago Tribune in 1998. Over his eight-year tenure at the Tribune, Mendell also has covered breaking national news, including the Columbine High School shootings and the Seattle riots spurred by meetings of the World Trade Organization.
"David Mendell got to Barack Obama before most of the rest of the
world, telling the story of Obama's remarkable rise to power with
deep reporting and in vivid detail. Obama was perhaps the most
unlikely person ever to seek the presidency. Mendell's fine book
provides the historical backdrop for how Obama got to the starting
line of that 2008 campaign. The story he tells is as fresh today as
it was at the time."--Dan Balz, Chief Correspondent at the
Washington Post
"David Mendell was on the Obama story long before the rest of the
world caught on. This book remains an essential text for
understanding President Obama's formative years."--Alec MacGillis,
government and politics reporter for ProPublica and author of
The Cynic: A biography of Senator Mitch McConnell
"I recommend this wonderful book to anyone who wants to know the
real story behind Barack Obama's historic rise to national
political stardom. Having covered Obama since his Senate campaign
began, David Mendell offers an insightful, richly detailed and
refreshingly balanced account of a 'change candidate' who was
neither as perfect or as flawed as others might want you to
believe."--Clarence Page, 1989 Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for
the Chicago Tribune
"Long before Barack Obama made history, he attracted the attention
of the gifted journalist David Mendell. His intimate interviews
with the rising political star, and his brilliant analysis of the
movement that formed around him, endure as an unparalleled
chronicle of the making of an American president."--Evan Osnos,
winner of the National Book Award for Age of Ambition, and
staff writer at the New Yorker
"Long before Barack Obama was president, David Mendell was
there?and we're lucky he was. In Obama: From Promise to
Power, he uses his extraordinary access to Barack and Michelle
Obama, their friends and aides, to deliver an engaging and
insightful portrait of one of the most intriguing leaders in modern
American history."--Peter Slevin, author of Michelle Obama: A
Life.
"This book was required reading for those of us who covered Obama's
2008 campaign. Two White House terms later, it remains a
fascinating and unfiltered read about the remarkable political rise
of a major historical figure."--John McCormick, Bloomberg
national political reporter
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