Author Film Series: David Remnick "Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama"

The Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca Street, Geneva, NY

JUST ANNOUNCED - AUTHOR SPEAKS SERIES

Fifth in the series of eight

David Remnick | The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
With his New York Times bestselling biography The Bridge, David Remnick offers a personal and historical context for Barack Obama's extraordinary political career. Remnick's exhaustive research illuminates the President's critical formative years, showing the evolution of his social conscience, as he developed from student to community organizer to Senator, and situates his political rise against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicago. “Remnick has many important additions and corrections to make to our reading of Dreams from My Father,” writes Garry Wills in the New York Times Book Review. “The book's insights into Obama's character will be very useful for understanding the man’s performance as president.

Filmed at the Phildelphia Free Library

Running time 1 hour. Discussions after the film in the downstairs cabaret.

$5 general admission / $3 Seniors (62+) & college students/Children grades 12 and unnder free