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demmiblue

(36,845 posts)
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 09:16 AM Jul 2021

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 Spotify’s 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 Springsteen’s handwritten lyrics and Obama’s annotated speeches.

“Over the years, what we’ve found is that we’ve got a shared sensibility,” Obama writes in the book’s 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 that’s 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 book’s 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/



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Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen Announce Co-Authored Book 'Renegades: Born in the U.S.A.' (Original Post) demmiblue Jul 2021 OP
Wow, wow. wow! lark Jul 2021 #1
K & R . . . Lovie777 Jul 2021 #2
Uh oh PlanetBev Jul 2021 #3
🤔 Bwaaaahahahaaaaaaaa 😂 👍 ... electric_blue68 Jul 2021 #4
I will be having this book. Bayard Jul 2021 #9
The book needs a catchy title Retired Engineer Bob Jul 2021 #18
Check out their "Renegades" podcast on Spotify.... love love love it. TBA Jul 2021 #5
Yes, it's amazing. mountain grammy Jul 2021 #6
Hawaii is an overseas territory of Kenya, so not the USA IronLionZion Jul 2021 #7
The Boss and Obama what a great team. We need to find the next Obama who can begin to fix the Pepsidog Jul 2021 #8
Joe Scarborough has been desperately trying to be all that rolled into him...he has delusions of CTyankee Jul 2021 #10
You don't need a crystal ball to predict this will be a best seller ... SarcasticSatyr Jul 2021 #11
Obama just trolling these fools now greenjar_01 Jul 2021 #12
right the fuck on! nt hookaleft Jul 2021 #13
Send a jacket cover to Rafael Cruz. Just the cover. keithbvadu2 Jul 2021 #14
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jul 2021 #15
Obama's dunking on tRump Blue Owl Jul 2021 #16
'Underage girls we have known.' keithbvadu2 Jul 2021 #17

lark

(23,097 posts)
1. Wow, wow. wow!
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 09:20 AM
Jul 2021

How totally unexpected, I will definitely have to see this! Bookmarking to watch after I get home from my sons' place.

18. The book needs a catchy title
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 10:25 PM
Jul 2021
Bone Spurs and a Pantload, How we Avoided the Draft

We are the Greatest Evah

Bad Music, Bad Presidentin, How to Con a Rube

Disease Free and Tight, Bless the Little Girls

Cat Scratch and COVID Fever


Anyone else have suggestions?

IronLionZion

(45,433 posts)
7. Hawaii is an overseas territory of Kenya, so not the USA
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 11:13 AM
Jul 2021

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)
8. The Boss and Obama what a great team. We need to find the next Obama who can begin to fix the
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 11:40 AM
Jul 2021

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)
10. Joe Scarborough has been desperately trying to be all that rolled into him...he has delusions of
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 11:59 AM
Jul 2021

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.

keithbvadu2

(36,788 posts)
14. Send a jacket cover to Rafael Cruz. Just the cover.
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 02:58 PM
Jul 2021

Send a jacket cover to Rafael Cruz.

Just the cover.

Response to keithbvadu2 (Reply #14)

Blue Owl

(50,356 posts)
16. Obama's dunking on tRump
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 08:31 PM
Jul 2021

I bet Dingleberry Donny's calling Ted Nugent right now to see if he'll co-author a book deal with him

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