NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Two longtime friends share an intimate
and urgent conversation about life, music, and their enduring love of
America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly
produced expansion of their groundbreaking Higher Ground podcast,
featuring more than 350 photographs, exclusive bonus content, and
never-before-seen archival material.
Renegades: Born in the USA is a candid, revealing, and entertaining
dialogue between President Barack Obama and legendary musician Bruce
Springsteen that explores everything from their origin stories and
career-defining moments to our country's polarized politics and the
growing distance between the American Dream and the American reality.
Filled with full-color photographs and rare archival material, it is a
compelling and beautifully illustrated portrait of two outsiders--one
Black and one white--looking for a way to connect their unconventional
searches for meaning, identity, and community with the American story
itself. It includes:
- Original introductions by President Obama and Bruce Springsteen
- Exclusive new material from the Renegades podcast recording
sessions
- Obama's never-before-seen annotated speeches, including his "Remarks
at the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery Marches"
- Springsteen's handwritten lyrics for songs spanning his 50-year-long
career
- Rare and exclusive photographs from the authors' personal archives
- Historical photographs and documents that provide rich visual context
for their conversation
In a recording studio stocked with dozens of guitars, and on at least
one Corvette ride, Obama and Springsteen discuss marriage and
fatherhood, race and masculinity, the lure of the open road and the call
back to home. They also compare notes on their favorite protest songs,
the most inspiring American heroes of all time, and more. Along the way,
they reveal their passion for--and the occasional toll of--telling a
bigger, truer story about America throughout their careers, and explore
how our fractured country might begin to find its way back toward unity
and global leadership.
