Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years Audiobook (Free)

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Remember when presidents spoke in complete phrases rather than in unhinged tweets? David Litt will. In his comic, coming-of-age memoir, he takes us back again to the Obama years – and charts a route forward in age 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 very much encounter in politics (or other things, for example), yet suddenly found themselves in the most about Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years high-stakes workplace on the planet. David Litt was one particular twenty-somethings. After graduating from university in 2008, he went straight to the Obama advertising campaign. In 2011, he became one of the youngest White House speechwriters in history. Until departing the White House in 2016, he wrote on topics from health care to climate modification to criminal justice reform. As Leader Obama’s go-to comedy writer, he also got the lead within the Light House Correspondents’ Dinner, the so-called “Condition from the Union of jokes.”

Now, in this refreshingly honest memoir, Litt brings us inside Obamaworld. Using a humorists’ eyes for fine detail, he represents what it’s prefer to unintentionally trigger an international incident or almost set a president’s locks aflame. He answers questions you hardly ever knew you had: Which Light House men’s area may be the classiest? What do you do when the commander in main gets your name wrong? Where in the event you by no means, under any circumstances, change clothes on Air Push One? With almost a decade of stories to tell, Litt makes apparent that politics is totally, hopelessly absurd.

But it’s also important. For all your occasions of chaos, disappointment, and yes, disillusionment, Litt continues to be a believer in the words that 1st drew him towards the Obama marketing campaign: “People who love this country can change it.” In informing his own tale, Litt sheds refreshing light on his previous boss’s legacy. And he argues that, regardless of the current political climate, the politics championed by Barack Obama will outlive the presidency of Donald Trump.

Full of hilarious tales and told in a original tone of voice, Thanks, Obama can be an exciting debut in what it means – personally, professionally, and politically – to grow up.