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Leading from Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him Hardcover – August 21, 2012

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Barack Obama has never been fully vetted―until now.

In the New York Times bestselling Leading from Behind, investigative journalist Richard Miniter presents the first book to explore President Obama's abilities as a leader, by unearthing new details of his biggest successes and failures. Based on exclusive interviews and never-before-published material, Leading from Behind investigates the secret world of the West Wing and the combative personalities that shape historic events.

Contrary to the White House narrative, which aims to define Obama as a visionary leader, Leading from Behind reveals a president who is indecisive, moody, and often paralyzed by competing political considerations. Many victories―as well as several significant failures―during the Obama presidency are revealed to be the work of strong women, who led when the president did not: then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; and Valerie Jarrett, his closest adviser and an Obama family confidante, whose unusual degree of influence has been a source of conflict with veteran political insiders.

In Leading from Behind, you will learn:

· Why Obama's relationship with Israel was poisoned years before he met Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu

· The real reason for Valerie Jarrett's strong hold over both Barack and Michelle Obama

· ObamaCare wasn't Obama's idea. It was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's. And the real reason he danced to her tune.

· Obama delayed and canceled the mission to kill Osama bin Laden three times and then committed an intelligence blunder that allowed dozens of high-level members of al Qaeda to escape.

· Why Obama destroyed a secret budget deal with House Speaker John Boehner that would have reformed entitlements, slashed spending, and reduced the national debt―without raising taxes

· Why Obama is determined to save Attorney General Eric Holder, even though he has mislead and stonewalled Congress about "Operation: Fast and Furious"

· Why Obama decided to defy the Tea Party and ditch his plans to end earmarks

In Leading from Behind, Richard Miniter's provocative research offers a dramatic, thoroughly sourced account of President Obama's White House during a time of intense domestic controversy and international turmoil.

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Richard Miniter is the author of two top-ten New York Times bestsellers, Losing Bin Laden and Shadow War, as well as Mastermind, the first biography of 9/11 planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. He writes a column for Forbes.com. A former editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal in Brussels, member of the investigative team at The Sunday Times in London, and editorial-page editor of the Washington Times, Miniter has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, as well as The Atlantic, Reader's Digest, Newsweek, The New Republic, and National Review. He has appeared on CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. He has won awards from the National Press Club and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (shared). He lives in Arlington, Virginia.

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Publisher : St. Martin's Press; 0 edition (August 21, 2012)
Language : English
Hardcover : 304 pages
ISBN-10 : 125001610X
ISBN-13 : 978-1250016102
Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
Dimensions : 6.42 x 1.21 x 9.59 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,675,035 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3,349 in United States Executive Government
- #12,014 in History & Theory of Politics
- #88,598 in United States History (Books)

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Karilynn

The Obama Presidency...

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2017

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Well, nothing has changed! The president that was afraid to act like an American President! Dropped the ball beginning with Fast & Furious & unfortunately, nothing got any better!

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RJJDS

Excellent

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2017

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I would recommend this book to anyone who is not sure what has happened to our country under the Obama administration.

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Jon Vander Schouw

Prelude to The Worst President Ever

Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2018

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Insight into a loser

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Janet Robinson

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2016

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How did he ever get ever get elected? Was it legal>

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Excellent book

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2018

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Excellent book alot of stories on the corruption of Barrack Hussein Obama and his hatred for Israel.

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Sylvia Richard

Leading from behind gave good insight into the workings of Obama and his inability ...

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2014

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Leading from behind gave good insight into the workings of Obama and his inability to lead and make decisions. It was easy reading and well written. I'm sorry to have to know this, but of course, I already knew this just made my feelings of being unsafe every bit stronger. I don't know how we are going to get through the next two years without eminent disasters on every corner. Very sad.

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SpaceBlue

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Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2016

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Thoroughly researched, shows Obama in his true light.

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L.Henderson

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Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2016

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Great book!

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David Patrick

Flinty Pelosi steals limelight in entertaining read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 16, 2012

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Leading from Behind is a thoroughly entertaining read, regardless of your opinions on Obama's leadership abilities - or lack thereof. Miniter has illuminated a few scintillating facts of which the general public may not be aware, although his tilt is sometimes shamelessly anti-Obama.

The unexpected (and almost certainly unintentional) star of the book is not the GOP but rather that Botox-basted glam gran from San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi. With her brittle smile, flaky pronouncements and waspish tongue, Pelosi is best known for leaning further left than a Euro socialist. Yet she emerges from Miniter's account with a bigger set of balls than Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett combined. There she is, relentlessly driving steel into Obama's spine over Obamacare; skewering her hated enemy Rahm Emanuel; hamstringing Hillary by supporting Obama over the super-delegate issue in the 2008 primaries. (Did she like Obama more? Or think he would make a better president than Hillary? No and no. Apparently, Pelosi rationalised Obama would be easier to manipulate than Hillary. No fool, this woman).

Of great interest is the backstory on Valerie Jarrett, Obama's special advisor. I doubt many Americans have even heard of this Rasputin-like figure but Miniter succeeds admirably in bringing her spidery influence into sharp focus. Will any of this persuade Democrats or Independents not to vote for Obama? Of course not. Obama's victory in November won't be about his leadership qualities, or the lack of jobs, or the killing of Osama bin Laden (which Miniter recounts quite brilliantly), or even about economic competence. Instead, this race will be about race.

About 50,000 Hispanics are reaching voting age every day; that demographic overwhelmingly supports Obama, particularly in the swing states but increasingly in GOP strongholds such as Texas. For that, the GOP can thank their frothing pitbulls in the Tea Party for so eloquently emphasising the party's strident anti-immigration stance. Romney and the Republicans are toast - quite possibly forever. That sobering reality renders this book enjoyable rather than influential.

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Charles Caughill

Leading from Behind

Reviewed in Canada on September 21, 2012

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This is a book every American voting in the 2012 Election should read. It is difficult to believe that Obama was ever elected to be President in the first place. He was never vetted and he was totally supported by the left wing media to a position he simply could not do. Obama could not make decisions and relied on other unskilled ideologues for answers. Unbelieveable!! The US better get it right this time..

リバーサイドひらくち

オバマがいかに優柔不断でリーダーシップがないかという話

Reviewed in Japan on July 25, 2016

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contentsを参考までに写します。１．The Women 2.Health Care 3.Nothing is Sure but Debt and Taxes 4.killing bin Laden Loudly 5.Israel's Dillemma 6.Fast andLoose and Furious 7.What kind of Leader Is Obama? 　
強い母（自己チュー）に振り回されて幼少期を過ごしたせいか、成り上がり的妻、最強（最悪？）側近Valerie Jarrett ,有能な Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clintonなど強い女性に囲まれるのを好む。複雑な生い立ち（母親は白人で未婚の母、実の父親はケニアからの留学生。継父はインドネシア人）と友人のいない孤独が人格形成に及ぼした影響は大。重大決定は先延ばし、その場からしばしばぷいっといなくなる。丸投げして（医療保険改革）功績は自分のものにする（オバマケアではなくペロシケアと呼ぶべきと）。相談なく深慮を欠く発表（ビンラディン殺害）をしたなどなど散々な言われたよう。５と６は眠くてパスしました。2012年の出版なのでキューバとの国交回復や広島訪問は載っていません。

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