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Inhalt: " A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREsquire Best Book of 2017Remember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of in unhinged tweets? Former Obama speechwriter David Litt does. In his comic, coming-of-age memoir, he takes us back to the Obama years – and charts a path forward in the age of Trump.More than any other presidency, Barack Obama's eight years in the White House were defined by young people – twenty-somethings who didn't have much experience in politics (or anything else, for that matter), yet suddenly found themselves in the most high-stakes office building on earth. David Litt was one of those twenty-somethings. After graduating from college in 2008, he went straight to the Obama campaign. In 2011, he became one of the youngest White House speechwriters in history. Until leaving the White House in 2016, he wrote on topics from healthcare to climate change to criminal justice reform. As President Obama's go-to comedy writer, he also took the lead on the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the so-called State of the Union of jokes. Now, in this refreshingly honest memoir, Litt brings us inside Obamaworld. With a humorists' eye for detail, he describes what it's like to accidentally trigger an international incident or nearly set a president's hair aflame. He answers questions you never knew you had: Which White House men's room is the classiest? What do you do when the commander in chief gets your name wrong? Where should you never, under any circumstances, change clothes on Air Force One? With nearly a decade of stories to tell, Litt makes clear that politics is completely, hopelessly absurd. But it's also important. For all the moments of chaos, frustration, and yes, disillusionment, Litt remains a believer in the words that first drew him to the Obama campaign: People who love this country can change it. In telling his own story, Litt sheds fresh light on his former boss's legacy. And he argues that, despite the current political climate, the politics championed by Barack Obama will outlive the presidency of Donald Trump. Full of hilarious stories and told in a truly original voice, Thanks, Obama is an exciting debut about what it means – personally, professionally, and politically – to grow up. "

Inhalt: Biographisches: " David Litt is the New York Times best-selling author of Thanks, Obama: My Hopey Changey White House Years . From 2011-2016, David wrote speeches for President Obama, and was described as the comic muse for the president for his work on the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Since leaving the White House, he served as the head writer and producer for Funny Or Die's office in Washington, with a focus on improving youth turnout in the 2018 election, and developed a sitcom based on his life in D.C. He frequently appears on CNN and MSNBC to discuss current events. " Rezension(2): "New York Times Book Review:Litt is a funny and skillful storyteller... While the first half of the book is enjoyable, the second half is masterly, rising to a crescendo that is as rousing as, well, a particularly inspiring campaign speech." Rezension(3): "The Atlantic:Graceful, instructive, wry speechwriter memoirs like Litt's are the exception rather than the norm. . Thanks, Obama will join the ranks of lasting works about the texture of political life, and of coming-of-age accounts by staffers who grow up personally and politically at the same time." Rezension(4): "Elle, Best of the Month:His time [in the White House] was as 'hopey changey' as advertised—" Rezension(5): "New Republic:Serve[s] as a more devastating indictment of the current administration than a campaign-style book ever could . limber, funny and illuminating." Rezension(6): "Pacific Standard:Highly entertaining . much more than a scrapbook of Beltway gossip and Obama idolatry." Rezension(7): "Bustle, Best of the Month:Litt also offers both humor and optimism, two things many of us sorely need these days." Rezension(8): "Paste Magazine:What Litt understands and what Thanks, Obama makes clear may very soon be forgotten: The finest presidential speeches can heal the nation." Rezension(9): "USA Today, *** 1/2:A thoughtful and funny account of life as a minnow surrounded by Washington's self-important whales . ranks with other classics from former White House speechwriters, such as Peggy Noonan's What I Saw at the Revolution." Rezension(10): "Washington Monthly:Funny and unexpectedly moving . a powerful reminder that true fulfillment can come from wielding even the smallest bit of influence on behalf of those who have none." Rezension(11): "Publishers Weekly:Veering between tragedy and comedy, between self-doubt and hubris, Litt vividly recreates a period during which he saw his words sometimes become the words of a nation." Rezension(12): "David Axelrod, former Senior Advisor to Barack Obama and author of Believer: My Forty Years in Politics:By turns moving and hilarious, David Litt's rollicking account of his journey from campaign field grunt to presidential speechwriter is an irresistible read." Rezension(13): "Judd Apatow:David Litt has done the impossible: written a smart, insightful, and funny White House memoir you don't have to be a political junkie to love. Even better, he takes us back to a saner more compassionate time when our president liked to read." Rezension(14): "Keegan-Michael Key:Terrific—" Rezension(15): "Billy Eichner:David Litt is brilliant. I've gotten to witness firsthand some of the work he did for President Obama at past White House Correspondents Dinners and it's always intelligent, razor sharp and hilarious." Rezension(16): "John Mulaney, co-creator and star of Oh, Hello:An outstanding, hilarious, and precise memoir . I laughed again and again. This is an excellent account of what it felt like to work for the Second to Last President of The United States." Rezension(17): "Matt Walsh, HBO’" Rezension(18): "Tig Notaro, author of I’" Rezension(19): "Anne Fadiman, author of Ex Libris:Thanks, Obama is a wonderful book for the same reasons David Litt's speeches for the White House were wonderful: it's well-written, it's funny, it tells us exactly what we're curious about, and. it reminds us that a great president galvanizes not only his staff but his country." Rezension(20): "Mike Birbiglia, author of Sleepwalk With Me: And Other Painfully True Stories:Funny and warm, David Litt knows how to make people laugh regardless of their political affiliation." Rezension(21): "Adam Grant, author of Originals and coauthor of Option B:A magnificent memoir on the Obama presidency. You'll walk away with another kind of hope that's needed now more than ever: the belief that..." Rezension(22): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: July 31, 2017 In this entertaining memoir, Litt recounts becoming, in 2011, one of eight speechwriters for President Obama. Two years later, he held the title “special assistant to the president” and was Obama’s go-to guy for funny lines, with an ever-larger role in the president’s remarks for the annual Correspondents’ Dinner. His career culminated in 2015 with the famous Correspondents’ Dinner featuring “Obama’s Anger Translator,” Keegan-Michael Key’s sketch-comedy character. Litt’s tale shares a starry-eyed sensibility and gratification in personal good fortune—in his case, landing a dream job soon after graduating from Yale—with other accounts published by former Obama staffers. However, he manages to come off as not (too) privileged or self-important, candidly recollecting some of his biggest gaffes as a White House speechwriter (for instance, gravely offending the government and people of Kenya with a single, thoughtlessly written line.) He also does an excellent job describing the genesis and performance of several of Obama’s most powerful speeches, including one made following the Charleston church shootings in 2015: “Then, without warning, he paused, looked down, and shook his head Then, softly, the most powerful person on earth began to sing.” Veering between tragedy and comedy, between self-doubt and hubris, Litt vividly recreates a period during which he saw his words sometimes become the words of a nation. " Rezension(23): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: April 1, 2017 At age 24 one of the youngest presidential speechwriters ever, Litt was a special assistant to the president and senior presidential speechwriter when he left the White House in 2016, and he was also President Obama's special comedy writer. With a 60,000-copy first printing. Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(24): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: August 1, 2017 President Barack Obama's speechwriter offers his take on an extraordinary tenure inside the White House.There's an interesting subcategory of memoirs emerging from the Obama years. Unlike the heavy hitters from the Cabinet, we're hearing from the young professionals who propelled the senator to power and bore witness to his legacy. They also happen to be some of the funniest workplace comedies on the shelves. In a memoir following closely on the heels of former Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa Mastromonaco's book, Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? (2017), Litt, one of the youngest speechwriters in the history of the White House, delivers a fast, funny ride through the halls of power. Haunted by the specter of Sarah Palin (So, how's that whole hopey, changey thing workin' out for ya?), the author offers a stark contrast in leadership between then and now. Working first for senior adviser Valerie Jarrett before becoming senior presidential speechwriter, Litt admits his impressions were colored by The West Wing: Like every Democrat under the age of thirty-five, I was raised, in part, by Aaron Sorkin. He reveals what it's like to write four White House Correspondents' Association dinner speeches for the president, and he chronicles some strange encounters with the likes of Scarlett Johansson, Harvey Weinstein, and the comedy duo Key & Peele. But for every White House men's room anecdote or gee-whiz moment (Air Force One is exactly as cool as you would expect), Litt offers piercing assessments of the nature of our politics. Gridlock is an accident, an inconvenience, he writes. What happened on Capitol Hill was a strategy, and its architect was Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell. His final thoughts, written as the next administration begins its reign, are telling: But here, beyond a shadow of a doubt, is the single most valuable lesson I learned in public service: There are no grown-ups, at least not in the way I imagined as a kid. President Obama's running question to Litt was, so, are we funny? Yes, they are--and insightful, too. COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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