With his New York Times bestselling biography The Bridge, David Remnick offers a personal and historical context for Barack Obama's extraordinary political career. Remnick's exhaustive research illuminates the President's critical formative years, showing the evolution of his social conscience, as he developed from student to community organizer to Senator, and situates his political rise against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicago. “Remnick has many important additions and corrections to make to our reading of Dreams from My Father,” writes Garry Wills in the New York Times Book Review. “The book's insights into Obama's character will be very useful for understanding the man’s performance as president.”

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Endowed Lecture