YEAR ONE: The barrage of Obamacentric books continues. The latest is The Promise (Simon & Schuster; $28), a 480-page account of the president’s first year in office by Jonathan Alter, a senior editor at Newsweek. Read more
Having grown up six blocks from Wrigley Field, Jonathan Alter, a senior editor and columnist at Newsweek in New York, still considers himself a Chicagoan. “So when a Chicagoan was elected president, I felt the same surge of local pride as somebody who lives there permanently,” Alter told Chicago in a recent phone interview. His new book, The Promise: President Obama, Year One (Simon & Schuster; $18), is out today... Read more
