Book Tour:

Obama's Odyssey: The 2008 Race for the White House
by Connie Corcoran Wilson
Quad City Press
Trade Paperback


I used to love reading the insider accounts of political campaigns written by Jules Witcover and Jack Germond.  As a politically active man, I knew the stories from the elections written in the newspapers and reported on television news programs, but Witcover and Germond presented details not able to be covered in bite-sized, photo-op driven media.

So it was that I was delighted to be contacted to be part of the book tour for OBAMA'S ODYSSEY: The 2008 Race for the White House, written by Connie Corcoran Wilson.  Wilson, a veteran newspaper reporter, blogged the campaign for Yahoo and has compiled her campaign columns for this book.

If you are looking for broad strokes, go elsewhere to find the story of the 2008 election.  However, if like me, you much more enjoy the piecing together of the larger story with the finer details, then OBAMA'S ODYSSEY is for you.  These are not the stories from a lazy reporter sitting at a desk in a far away city, these are detailed, and often funny, reports from a journalist who traveled along the 2008 journey.

In order to best enjoy this book you have to put aside what you know since 2008 election victory by Obama.  Instead, discover the formation of the story day-by-day as Wilson sleuths out the details of how the political sausage was made.

This book is perfect for political junkies.  There is also a lot to learn about the first Hillary Clinton presidential campaign...take that for what it's worth.

I believe OBAMA'S ODYSSEY is a valuable contribution to the U.S. political record of the election of the first African-American  president in history.  I would like to give thanks for being offered the opportunity to read and review this book.

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I received an advance reader copy of this book  for my honest review. The opinions expressed here are my own.  -- BookDude