Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump

Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump

by Dan Pfeiffer
Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump

Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump

by Dan Pfeiffer

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Overview


From Obama's former communications director and current co-host of Pod Save America comes a colorful account of how politics, the media, and the Internet changed during the Obama presidency and how Democrats can fight back in the Trump era.

On November 9th, 2016, Dan Pfeiffer woke up like most of the world wondering WTF just happened. How had Donald Trump won the White House? How was it that a decent and thoughtful president had been succeeded by a buffoonish reality star, and what do we do now?

Instead of throwing away his phone and moving to another country (which were his first and second thoughts), Pfeiffer decided to tell this surreal story, recounting how Barack Obama navigated the insane political forces that created Trump, explaining why everyone got 2016 wrong, and offering a path for where Democrats go from here.

Pfeiffer was one of Obama's first hires when he decided to run for president, and was at his side through two presidential campaigns and six years in the White House. Using never-before-heard stories and behind-the-scenes anecdotes, Yes We (Still) Can examines how Obama succeeded despite Twitter trolls, Fox News (and their fake news), and a Republican Party that lost its collective mind.

An irreverent, no-BS take on the crazy politics of our time, Yes We (Still) Can is a must-read for everyone who is disturbed by Trump, misses Obama, and is marching, calling, and hoping for a better future for the country.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781538711729
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication date: 06/19/2018
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 802,816
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Dan Pfeiffer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yes We (Still) Can and a cohost on Pod Save America. One of Barack Obama's longest serving advisors, he was White House director of communications under President Obama (2009-2013) and senior advisor to the president (2013-2015). He currently lives in the Bay Area with his wife, Howli, and their daughter, Kyla.

Table of Contents

Introduction: If You're Reading This, It's Too Late xi

Chapter 1 Started from the Bottom 1

Chapter 2 How Not to Lose a Campaign 30

Chapter 3 Telling the Country and Other Tales of Presidential Communications 58

Interlude 1 Something Pants-Splittingly Funny 86

Chapter 4 The New Media Wasteland 91

Chapter 5 Fighting Fake News 113

Interlude 2 My Beautiful, Dark, Twisted (White House) Fantasy 138

Chapter 6 Fox (and Friends) Is Destroying America 142

Chapter 7 The Republicans Go off the Deep End 171

Chapter 8 Tweeting While Rome Burns 197

Chapter 9 From 1600 Penn to Keepin' It 1600 230

Interlude 3 Advice You Can Believe In 245

Chapter 10 The 2016 Campaign Clusterfuck 248

Chapter 11 Thanks, Obama (Seriously) 268

Acknowledgments 281

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