My Secret About Obama

Journalist Frazier tells the hidden story of the President, divulging little-known details of President Barack Obama's past. Frazier exposes unexplained details and answers. This illuminating work is the unrevealed story of the President--the one readers won't get from their morning paper.

The book reveals my personal secret about the president. It also represents the 47 percent. Their voices are rarely heard. I only hope that my words reflect the courage and dignity of this group.

Obama's Secrets is the ultimate "communication bible." Learn how to be more persuasive, how to influence faster, and how to make a success of your own career. This one-of-a-kind book is not about President Barack Obama. It's about how you can hone your presentation and communication skills by using Obama's communication secrets. Obama's Secrets provides you with a wide range of tools from the arenas of persuasion, communication, presentation, psychology, and even from recent studies in the field of brain science! Now, whether you are a CEO, a corporate VP, a sales pro, a lawyer, a teacher, a minister, or a politician—you can use these secrets too. Based on their analysis of over 300 of Obama's appearances worldwide, from the 1990s until August 2011, and by utilizing their more than twenty-five years of experience, international communication guru Gil Peretz, and Defense Counsel and NLP expert Nili Peretz, have cracked the secret code of Obama's techniques and show you, step-by-step, how his "magical rhetoric skills" can translate into your own success.In the first part of the book, you will be exposed to the “street smarts” that will help you transform your messages so that they will penetrate the hearts and souls of your listeners.Part two will show you how the way you think helps to influence and persuade. Something more is required beyond tactics and methods, something much more basic and profound related to our way of thinking.In the third part, you will become acquainted with Obama's “message engineering.” You will be provided with a simple implementation toolkit that will enable you to quickly improve the way you convey your messages in all areas. You will be able to use the secrets of other charismatic leaders such as Winston Churchill, John Kennedy, and Bill Clinton, and business pioneers such as Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, and Stephen Covey.In part four, you will discover how Obama made people fall in love with him in 2008 and become enthralled by his messages, and you will get to know how to activate these secrets of infatuation. You will upgrade your skills in creating human chemistry and intimate closeness with a heterogeneous audience–the key to influencing and leading people.Part five will expose you to the right tools to communicate with the "right brain" and tap into the subconscious mind of your listeners. It works like magic. You will be exposed to the naturalness with which the mind absorbs stories and the way in which they directly penetrate the subconscious. After that, you will see how Obama uses “thought programs” to “program” the audience's mind and “glue” messages thereto. You can use these secrets too, and–no less important –you will upgrade your alertness level when others try to influence you.In the sixth part you will learn how Obama uses effective linguistic patterns to convey messages. Here, too, you will be provided with a very useful toolbox, with emphasis not only on the tools themselves, but also on the reasons why these tools are effective. And finally, you will be exposed to the power of non-verbal communication, which is an integral part of any interpersonal communication. Often it is not what you say; it's how you say it.A brief and concise summary on the last page of each chapter will allow you to use the book quickly and efficiently when preparing for your next presentation, speech, or sales call.Do you want to be Magnetizing? Charismatic? Eloquent? Captivating? Persuasive? Heart-piercing? A master of words? When you know what they are, you will be able to use Obama's secrets in order to communicate your messages like a pro, inspire any audience, stimulate action, and gain a competitive advantage.Obama's Secrets: How to Speak and Communicate with Power and a Little Magic will transform the way you plan, prepare and practice for your next presentation, media appearance, or sales meeting–in a way no other book can. It might just be the new "Dale Carnegie for our era".

When Obama stated that if elected, he would keep his Blackberry, debate echoed through Washington and among the ranks of the Secret Service. What would it be like to have a president who could Twitter, send text messages, and navigate the web with ease? What would it be like to receive a text message from inside the Oval Office and, most importantly, what would it say? Now, for the first time, We The People are privy to our new leader's epistolary back-and-forths on his wily hand-held device. We're about to discover that his emails (and the replies, from his wife and daughters, Biden, Palen, Rush, Hannity, the new first puppy, and even Bush) are so tuned in to the language of electronic correspondence they come hilariously close to the brink of legibility. This giftable, imagined glimpse into Obama's beloved Blackberry traverses the mundane and momentous contours of the Commander in Chief's life, from security briefings to spam, basketball practice to domestic bliss, and the panic of oops-I-hit-reply-all, to, of course, the trauma of dealing with the First Mother In Law. To wit: BidenMyTime: Hey U, whatcha doin? BARACKO: M rly busy BidenMyTime: Right :( Can I lv at 4:45?

Every president has had a unique and complicated relationship with the intelligence community. While some have been coolly distant, even adversarial, others have found their intelligence agencies to be among the most valuable instruments of policy and power. Since John F. Kennedy's presidency, this relationship has been distilled into a personalized daily report: a short summary of what the intelligence apparatus considers the most crucial information for the president to know that day about global threats and opportunities. This top–secret document is known as the President's Daily Brief, or, within national security circles, simply “the Book.” Presidents have spent anywhere from a few moments (Richard Nixon) to a healthy part of their day (George W. Bush) consumed by its contents; some (Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush) consider it far and away the most important document they saw on a regular basis while commander in chief. The details of most PDBs are highly classified, and will remain so for many years. But the process by which the intelligence community develops and presents the Book is a fascinating look into the operation of power at the highest levels. David Priess, a former intelligence officer and daily briefer, has interviewed every living president and vice president as well as more than one hundred others intimately involved with the production and delivery of the president's book of secrets. He offers an unprecedented window into the decision making of every president from Kennedy to Obama, with many character–rich stories revealed here for the first time.

During the Obama years, an asymmetrical media war was waged to control the critical first draft of American history. There is no fair way to record that history without first acknowledging the war. The field of battle shaped up as follows: on the right, the alternative conservative media and the “responsible” right, occasionally working together, often working at odds; on the left, the mainstream media, the social media giants, Hollywood, Broadway, the federal bureaucracies, the national security apparatus, and what Ray Bradbury would call “firemen”—the virtual book burners, amateur and professional. Rarely at odds, these forces routinely worked together to amplify what Obama adviser Ben Rhodes famously called the White House’s “messaging campaign.” Money, resources, and power overwhelmingly favored the left, but the right had the equalizer on its side—the truth.

Journalist Stanley Kurtz examines the politics of Barack Obama, focusing on his alleged socialist convictions, and suggesting that Obama's visions for the United States and long-term strategy are influenced by connections to radical groups and the Socialist Scholars Conferences.

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy - and the perfect gift this Christmas! 'Gorgeously written, humorous, compelling, life affirming' Justin Webb, Mail on Sunday In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency-a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of November 4, 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation's highest office. Reflecting on the presidency, he offers a unique and thoughtful exploration of both the awesome reach and the limits of presidential power, as well as singular insights into the dynamics of U.S. partisan politics and international diplomacy. Obama brings readers inside the Oval Office and the White House Situation Room, and to Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, and points beyond. We are privy to his thoughts as he assembles his cabinet, wrestles with a global financial crisis, takes the measure of Vladimir Putin, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds to secure passage of the Affordable Care Act, clashes with generals about U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, tackles Wall Street reform, responds to the devastating Deepwater Horizon blowout, and authorizes Operation Neptune's Spear, which leads to the death of Osama bin Laden. A Promised Land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective-the story of one man's bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage. Obama is candid about the balancing act of running for office as a Black American, bearing the expectations of a generation buoyed by messages of "hope and change," and meeting the moral challenges of high-stakes decision-making. He is frank about the forces that opposed him at home and abroad, open about how living in the White House affected his wife and daughters, and unafraid to reveal self-doubt and disappointment. Yet he never wavers from his belief that inside the great, ongoing American experiment, progress is always possible. This beautifully written and powerful book captures Barack Obama's conviction that democracy is not a gift from on high but something founded on empathy and common understanding and built together, day by day. 'What is unexpected in A Promised Land is the former president's candour' David Olusoga, Observer