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Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Acclaimed Newsweek senior editor, contributing correspondent to NBC News, and author (The Defining Moment) Jonathan Alter makes this welcome Seattle return to discuss his in-depth assessment of the first year of the Obama presidency, The Promise: President Obama, Year One (Simon & Schuster). "Alter turns in a freshman-year report card for the sitting president, with mixed but generally good grades. Obama is acing civics, to be sure, but he's having difficulty with some of the schoolyard bullies ... Looking into the president's past, the author portrays Obama as a fighter who sometimes gives the impression that he would rather be doing something else, a peacemaker who isn't afraid to pressure friends and enemies alike to achieve the larger good, but also as a man who thinks things through well in advance ... Alter is admiring but not uncritical ... Political junkies will find this rewarding, particularly in Alter's account of the inner workings of the White House and Capitol Hill." - Kirkus Reviews. Free admission is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison and Spring). Support for this evening comes from the Seattle Public Library Foundation. For more information, please call Elliott Bay Book Company at (206) 624-6600, The Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4636, or see www.spl.org.
