Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen Announce Co-Authored Book 'Renegades: Born in the U.S.A.'
Source: Rolling Stone
President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen will release a joint book, Renegades: Born in the U.S.A., on October 26th globally via Higher Ground/Penguin Random House.
The tome is described as a collection of candid, intimate, and entertaining conversations, which began in Spotifys co-produced podcast of the same name. Published in an oversized, fully-illustrated format, the book will also feature rare and exclusive photographs from the authors personal collections and never-before-seen archival material, including Springsteens handwritten lyrics and Obamas annotated speeches.
Over the years, what weve found is that weve got a shared sensibility, Obama writes in the books opening pages. About work, about family, and about America. In our own ways, Bruce and I have been on parallel journeys trying to understand this country thats given us both so much. Trying to chronicle the stories of its people. Looking for a way to connect our own individual searches for meaning and truth and community with the larger story of America.
Springsteen adds, in the books introduction, There were serious conversations about the fate of the country, the fortune of its citizens, and the destructive, ugly, corrupt forces at play that would like to take it all down. This is a time of vigilance when who we are is being seriously tested. Hard conversations about who we are and who we want to become can perhaps serve as a small guiding map for some of our fellow citizens.
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/barack-obama-bruce-springsteen-renegades-book-1200575/
lark
(23,097 posts)How totally unexpected, I will definitely have to see this! Bookmarking to watch after I get home from my sons' place.
Lovie777
(12,257 posts)PlanetBev
(4,104 posts)I know some failed Florida retiree whose going to be insanely jealous of this.
electric_blue68
(14,888 posts)ya think?!!!
Bayard
(22,063 posts)Now, TFG will have to write one with Ted Nugent!
Retired Engineer Bob
(759 posts)We are the Greatest Evah
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TBA
(825 posts)mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)I loved it too.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)similar to how Oakland, CA is a shared exclave of Jamaica and India. Everyone knows I was born in the section of NYC where a lot of H-1b job stealers are born.
One of my favorite moments of the 2016 election was when that orange turd gave Ted Cruz a hard time for being born in Canada and then Ted responded that Donny's mama was born in Scotland.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)country. The only person I can think of that can speak and think as good, if not better, is Michelle Obama. I know she said she would never run for office but hopefully she would reconsider. Bruce would be an interesting pick as well. Bruce appeals to a broad range of Americans from both sides of the political divide.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)rock-star fame. He's got this little group that plays clubs every now and then in little clubs in Manhattan. I think he has an album, iirc.
The mind boggles.
SarcasticSatyr
(1,178 posts)...
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)hookaleft
(938 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,788 posts)Send a jacket cover to Rafael Cruz.
Just the cover.
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Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)I bet Dingleberry Donny's calling Ted Nugent right now to see if he'll co-author a book deal with him
keithbvadu2
(36,788 posts)'Underage girls we have known.'
Also with Josh Duggar.