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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Two longtime friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music, and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly produced expansion of their groundbreaking Higher Ground podcast, featuring more than 350 photographs, exclusive bonus content, and never-before-seen archival material.
Renegades: Born in the USA is a candid, revealing, and entertaining dialogue between President Barack Obama and legendary musician Bruce Springsteen that explores everything from their origin stories and career-defining moments to our country's polarized politics and the growing distance between the American Dream and the American reality. Filled with full-color photographs and rare archival material, it is a compelling and beautifully illustrated portrait of two outsiders--one Black and one white--looking for a way to connect their unconventional searches for meaning, identity, and community with the American story itself. It includes:
* Original introductions by President Obama and Bruce Springsteen
* Exclusive new material from the Renegades podcast recording sessions
* Obama's never-before-seen annotated speeches, including his "Remarks at the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery Marches"
* Springsteen's handwritten lyrics for songs spanning his 50-year-long career
* Rare and exclusive photographs from the authors' personal archives
* Historical photographs and documents that provide rich visual context for their conversation
In a recording studio stocked with dozens of guitars, and on at least one Corvette ride, Obama and Springsteen discuss marriage and fatherhood, race and masculinity, the lure of the open road and the call back to home. They also compare notes on their favorite protest songs, the most inspiring American heroes of all time, and more. Along the way, they reveal their passion for--and the occasional toll of--telling a bigger, truer story about America throughout their careers, and explore how our fractured country might begin to find its way back toward unity and global leadership.
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Renegades is based on the Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama podcast, Higher Ground, a dialogue between two very famous but very different men. They did not so much interview each other as engage in conversation: conversations between friends who became closer over the years despite their respective fame and busy schedules. Now it has been transformed into a coffee table book featuring more than 350 photographs that range from intimate personal family portraits to all sorts of pop culture visual references. The two men met on the campaign trail in 2008. Soon, they started a friendship, and that relationship has continued over the years, rooted in long and honest conversations about music, race, money, love, family, masculinity, what it means to be an American, and other complex topics. They talk also about their similarities and their differences (such as growing up in Honolulu versus small-town New Jersey). Both consider themselves outsiders in their own way. Even readers who think they know everything there is to know about them might be surprised. Springsteen and cars are, of course, irrevocably intertwined; it is ironic, though, that he did not actually have a license or know how to drive until he was 24 ("Hitchhiked everywhere I went," he says). Meanwhile, Obama, early on, heard in Springsteen's music a "sense of emotional displacement." In addition to the photographs, the book contains examples of Obama's speeches lined with extensive handwritten notations and Springsteen's handwritten lyrics. Fascinating and supremely entertaining.