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...President into office 44 years later. But it is also an apt name for the story of Barack Obama's arc from youthful ambivalence to adult ambition, his struggle to reconcile his biracial roots and his attempt to build a political identity based on consensus rather than insistence. Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, has written an expansive work, as much an account of the forces that forged Obama's identity and intellect as it is a presidential biography. Though the level of detail can overwhelm at points, Remnick's fluid prose keeps the narrative on track. The book...
Kiechel, a former managing editor of FORTUNE, hails the rise of strategy, saying it has eclipsed "any other change worked in the intellectual landscape of business over the past 50 years." The "lords" are Bruce Henderson of BCG, Bill Bain of Bain & Co., Fred Gluck of McKinsey and Michael Porter of Harvard Business School. He traces their quest to understand how companies gain competitive advantage. The strategy revolution, Kiechel writes, "features a rowdy parade of ideas and analytical techniques jostling each other down the historical road...
This journey started with TIME editor-at-large Josh Quittner's piece in February 2009, which argued that the magazine industry ought to start thinking about how "to provide a new reading experience once the iPod of [e-readers] finally arrives." But that was notional. Once we found out about the launch of the iPad, it became a dash to get ready. We did not get the tech specs from Apple until a little over a month ago, and then scores of people started working together inside the magazine, TIME.com Time Inc. and beyond. (See the top 10 Apple moments...
Richard Stengel, MANAGING EDITOR...
...would continue its operations throughout the night or wait until morning to resume trying to take back the city's streets. "All that happened today so far may come to nothing, depending on whether government can hold on to the slim advantage they earned today," said Tulsathit Thaptim, an editor at The Nation...