The Amateur

Barack Obama in the White House

By: Edward Klein

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's summary

It’s amateur hour at the White House. So says New York Times best-selling author Edward Klein in his political exposé The Amateur. Tapping into the public’s growing sentiment that President Obama is in over his head, The Amateur argues that Obama’s toxic combination of incompetence and arrogance has run our nation and his presidency off the rails.

“Obama was both completely inexperienced and ideologically far to the left of most Americans when he entered the White House,” says Klein. “And he was so arrogant that he didn’t even know what he didn’t know.”

Klein, who is known for getting the inside scoop on everyone from the Kennedys to the Clintons, reveals never before published details about the Obama administration’s political inner workings, as well as Barack and Michelle’s personal lives, including the inordinate influence Michelle wields over Barack and her feud with a high profile celebrity; the real reason Rahm Emanuel left the White House (it wasn’t for family reasons); why Valerie Jarrett’s role is closer to that of Rasputin than impartial senior advisor; how Obama has purposefully forgotten and ignored those who put him in power, including the Kennedys and the Jewish and African American communities in Chicago.

From Obama’s conceited and detached demeanor, to his detrimental reliance on Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett’s advice, to the Obamas’ extravagant and out of touch lifestyle, The Amateur reveals a president whose ignorance and incompetence are sabotaging himself, his presidency, and America.

©2012 Edward Klein (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

“ The Amateur is the best book I’ve read on how Barack Obama is wrecking our country. I urge everyone who cares about America to read Edward Klein’s eyeopening book.” (Donald J. Trump)

“This is a racy, entertaining, informative book that illuminates apects of Obama and his team that have not been previously reported. A necessary antidote to the Obama worship that is sure to characterize the election debate.” (Dinesh D’Souza, New York Times best-selling author)

“A devastating indictment of the lethal combination of incompetence and radicalism that has made Obama into one of the worst presidents in American history.” (Norman Podhoretz, New York Times best-selling author)

Hatchet job

Narration is excellent: clear, robust, modulated, the works.

Content: at least no one can say this author pulls punches. Within the first few minutes of listening it is apparent the author HATES Obama.

It seems to me that the author’s conclusions aptly describe Trump, not Obama.

If one is looking for specious dirt on Obama then they have come to the right place.

Right Wing Socialists Will Love It

This book wasn???t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

Right Wing Socialists

Would you ever listen to anything by Edward Klein again?

no

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

yes

You didn???t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

Some interesting information about personalities and White House intrigue.

Any additional comments?

This book confirms what I have said about the two parties that control our government. They can???t debate the policies so they focus on ad hominem attacks and petty grips. If you want reinforcement of closed minded ring wing socialist ranting, read The Amateur. If you want a summation of the Obama Administration???s failed policy choices and their impact on important issues such as health care and the financial/monetary system, read Ron Suskind???s book Confidence Men.

Biased!

This book sounds like it was written by a Republican who is obviously biased in which interviews he chose to share. He’s living in a fantasy world if he really believes that we live in a world with, as he put it, people who have and people who don’t have yet. Between the inequality of our justice system and our schools, unfortunately, some will never have anything. If he felt this strongly about Obama, I cannot wait to hear how he must feel about Trump.

Fictional?

Too many odd details to be true, seems like a wanna be trying to get into the forefront of modern politics.