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beccasilverman 's review for:
Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
by David Litt
4.5 stars
In the current Trump era, it was nice to go back to "simpler" times for a bit. I’ve always been curious to learn more about politics, but been afraid because of all the terms that I don’t know and so many policies that I don't fully understand. So this was a nice way to get an overview of some topics in layperson's terms.
It was especially interesting for me to get an insight into the speechwriting process and the reasons why speeches had "this versus that" in them. Also, Litt is hilarious! I marked so many pages that I thought were funny. This was good for me because otherwise: politics + boring content = falling asleep. I loved the random references he sneakily included, like Harry Potter, Snow White, The Wizard of Oz, and more.
One thing to note, I was confused on the timeline and felt that we were sometimes jumping back and forth quickly between months/years and it wasn't always completely clear to me where we were at.
Something fun that I did was to look up speeches that Litt mentioned after reading about them. My favorite one was the prep of the Luther sketch with President Obama & Keegan-Michael Key for the 2015 Correspondent's Dinner and then watching it after and seeing how Obama was able to not "break" even though during practice he couldn't keep it together.
In the current Trump era, it was nice to go back to "simpler" times for a bit. I’ve always been curious to learn more about politics, but been afraid because of all the terms that I don’t know and so many policies that I don't fully understand. So this was a nice way to get an overview of some topics in layperson's terms.
It was especially interesting for me to get an insight into the speechwriting process and the reasons why speeches had "this versus that" in them. Also, Litt is hilarious! I marked so many pages that I thought were funny. This was good for me because otherwise: politics + boring content = falling asleep. I loved the random references he sneakily included, like Harry Potter, Snow White, The Wizard of Oz, and more.
One thing to note, I was confused on the timeline and felt that we were sometimes jumping back and forth quickly between months/years and it wasn't always completely clear to me where we were at.
Something fun that I did was to look up speeches that Litt mentioned after reading about them. My favorite one was the prep of the Luther sketch with President Obama & Keegan-Michael Key for the 2015 Correspondent's Dinner and then watching it after and seeing how Obama was able to not "break" even though during practice he couldn't keep it together.