Summary: Jonathan Alter, bestselling author and national political reporter for Newsweek and NBC, provides an inside account of the breakneck speed with which President-elect Obama, and then President Obama, began making critical decisions and assuming the burdens of office amid the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. He also explains what the President is like as a person, how he operates, and why he is so insistent on leading the country and the world into a new era of change. Program recorded on 6/22/10. Questions or comments? Write: programs@constitutioncenter.org
