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100 1  Laskas, Jeanne Marie,|d1958-|eauthor. 
245 10 To Obama :|bwith love, joy, anger, and hope /|cJeanne 
       Marie Laskas. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bRandom House,|c[2018] 
300    x, 401 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "Every evening for 8 years, at his request, President 
       Obama received a binder containing ten handpicked letters 
       from ordinary American citizens -- the unfiltered voice of
       a nation -- from his Office of Presidential 
       Correspondence. He was the first to President to save 
       constituent mail, and this is the story of how those 
       letters affected not only the President and his policies, 
       but also the deeply committed people who were tasked with 
       opening the millions of pleas, rants, thank yous, and 
       apologies that landed in the White House mailroom. Based 
       on the popular New York Times article, 'To Obama,' Laskas 
       now interviews the letter writers themselves and the White
       House staff who sifted through the powerful, moving, and 
       incredibly intimate narrative of America during the Obama 
       years emerges: There is Kelli, who saw her grandfathers 
       finally marry -- legally -- after 35 years together; Bill,
       a lifelong Republican whose attitude toward immigration 
       reform was transformed when he met a boy escaping M-16 
       gang leaders in El Salvador; Heba, a Syrian refugee who 
       wants to forget the day the tanks rolled into her village;
       Marjorie, who grappled with disturbing feelings of racial 
       bias lurking within her during the George Zimmerman trial;
       and Vicki, whose family was torn apart by those who voted 
       for Trump and those who did not. They wrote to Obama out 
       of gratitude and desperation, in their darkest times of 
       need, in search of connection. They wrote with anger and 
       respect. And together, this chorus of voices achieves a 
       kind of beautiful harmony: here is a diary of a nation. To
       Obama is an intimate look at one man's relationship to the
       American people, and the the intersection of politics and 
       empathy in the White House"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Obama, Barack|vCorrespondence. 
650  0 Presidents|zUnited States|vCorrespondence. 
650  0 American letters. 
651  0 United States|xPolitics and government|y2009-2017
       |vSources.