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The official release date is November 3rd. In the meantime, Random House has posted an excerpt.
It was 5:45 a.m. and like many West Wing staffers on Friday, Deputy White House Spokesman Bill Burton had been awoken by a phone call, in this case from an ABC News correspondent, Yunji De Nies, who told Burton that President Obama had just won the 2009 Nobel Peace...
A few minutes later, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called the President to wake him up with the news, which had been sent around internally to White House staff in an email from Situation Room Staff at about 5 a.m. that read: "Item of Interest: President Obama Wins Nobel Prize." (See...
The article set off no alarms at the White House. There were no discussions in senior staff meetings and no preparations for the pre-dawn announcement. When asked if anyone at the White House had even known Obama was a nominee for the prize, Gibbs said, "Not that I can...
Gibbs' call to the White House was patched through the Situation Room to the President's residence at about 6 a.m., where Obama was woken by the call. Gibbs has declined to describe the exact words that Obama used to describe his surprise at the news, but the President was...