The Stranger

Out next week: The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House by Chuck Todd.

Wall Street Journal: “With an informal, digressive writing style, Mr. Todd gamely sets out to produce an answer to that perhaps unanswerable question. The Stranger should not be confused with the deeply reported books already written on the president by the likes of David Remnick, Bob Woodward and Jonathan Alter. Mr. Todd seems to have gathered his material predominantly for use in his on-the-air news analyses, with the result that his interviews are driven less by the authorial desire to psychoanalyze than the pundit’s need to respond to the topic du jour. That said, he has harvested a bounty of fascinating anecdotes as the fruit of his access to the Obama White House.”