u003cbu003eOne of the most important politics books of the year, u003ciu003eTo Obamau003c/iu003e is a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy.u003c/bu003eu003cbu003e'The real story of Obama's America'u003c/bu003e u003ciu003eu003cbu003eSunday Timesu003c/bu003eu003c/iu003eEvery day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from ordinary American citizens. Every night, he read ten of them before going to bed. In u003ciu003eTo Obama,u003c/iu003e Jeanne Marie Laskas interviews President Obama, the letter-writers themselves and the White House staff in the Office of Presidential Correspondence who were witness to the millions of pleas, rants, thank-yous and apologies that landed in the mailroom during the Obama years. At once desperate, joyful, hateful and despairing, they form an intimate portrait of one man's relationship with the American people, and of a time when empathy intersected with politics in the White House.
