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Think you know the real Barack Obama? You don’t—not until you’ve read The AmateurIn this stunning exposé, bestselling author Edward Klein—a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, former foreign editor of Newsweek, and former editor-in-chief of the New York Times Magazine—pulls back the curtain on one of the most secretive White Houses in history. He reveals a callow, thin-skinned, arrogant president with messianic dreams of grandeur supported by a cast of true-believers, all of them united by leftist politics and an amateurish understanding of executive leadership.In The Amateur you’ll discover:Why the so-called “centrist” Obama is actually in revolt against the values of the society he was elected to leadWhy Bill Clinton loathes Barack Obama and tried to get Hillary to run against him in 2012The spiteful rivalry between Michelle Obama and Oprah WinfreyHow Obama split the Kennedy familyHow Obama has taken more of a personal role in making foreign policy than any president since Richard Nixon—with disastrous resultsHow Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett are the real powers behind the White House throneThe Amateur is a reporter’s book, buttressed by nearly 200 interviews, many of them with the insiders who know Obama best.
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Edward Klein is a well-known editor, writer and public speaker with a distinguished career in American journalism.
After serving an apprenticeship as a copy boy for the New York Daily News, he became a reporter for The World Telegram & Sun, where he covered Brooklyn street gangs and the courts.
He earned a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, which awarded him a traveling fellowship to Japan. There, he learned to speak Japanese and traveled throughout Asia as a foreign correspondent for United Press International.
Upon his return to New York, he joined Newsweek, where he became foreign editor and then assistant managing editor with jurisdiction over foreign and military affairs.
From Newsweek, he joined The New York Times. As editor in chief of The New York Times Magazine, he led this flagship publication of the Sunday Times to new heights of public interest and editorial excellence. During his editorship, The New York Times Magazine won the first Pulitzer Prize in its history.
Since leaving The Times, Edward Klein has written many articles for Vanity Fair and other national magazines. For almost 20 years, he wrote Parade magazine's "Walter Scott's Personality Parade," the most widely read column in the English language.
His nonfiction books have all appeared on The New York Times Best Seller List. They include: All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy; Just Jackie: Her Private Years; The Kennedy Curse; Farewell Jackie: A Portrait of Her Final Days; The Truth About Hillary; Katie: The Real Story; Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died; The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House; Blood Feud: The Clintons Vs. The Obamas; Unlikeable: The Problem With Hillary; and Guilty as Sin: Uncovering New Evidence of Corruption and How Hillary Clinton and the Democrats Derailed the FBI Investigation.
Edward Klein is also a novelist. He is the co-author of If Israel Lost the War and the author of The Parachutists.
