Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood.The family was forced to become animated characters, communicating with him in Disney dialogue and song; until they all emerge, together, revealing how, in darkness, we all literally need stories to survive.
The narrative delves into America's financial crisis, focusing on the challenges faced by a new president as he navigates the complexities of Washington and Wall Street. Through meticulous reporting, the author unveils the strategies employed to stabilize the economy and regain public trust during a tumultuous period. This insightful account highlights the interplay between political decisions and economic realities, offering a comprehensive look at a pivotal moment in American history.
This true coming-of-age story follows a young man's journey as he battles through despair using his intellect and sheer determination. His inspiring struggle highlights resilience and the power of willpower in overcoming life's challenges, showcasing a remarkable transformation against the odds.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of "The Price of Loyalty" and "The One Percent Doctrine" returns with an election year account of the looming national security crisis that America faces right now.
The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept: confidence. Both centers of power, tapping brazen innovations over the past three decades, learned how to manufacture it. Until August 2007, when that confidence finally began to crumble. In this gripping and brilliantly reported book, Ron Suskind tells the story of what happened next, as Wall Street struggled to save itself while a man with little experience and soaring rhetoric emerged from obscurity to usher in “a new era of responsibility.” It is a story that follows the journey of Barack Obama, who rose as the country fell, and offers the first full portrait of his tumultuous presidency. Wall Street found that straying from long-standing principles of transparency, accountability, and fair dealing opened a path to stunning profits. Obama’s determination to reverse that trend was essential to his ascendance, especially when Wall Street collapsed during the fall of an election year and the two candidates could audition for the presidency by responding to a national crisis. But as he stood on the stage in Grant Park, a shudder went through Barack Obama. He would now have to command Washington, tame New York, and rescue the economy in the first real management job of his life. The new president surrounded himself with a team of seasoned players—like Rahm Emanuel, Larry Summers, and Tim Geithner—who had served a different president in a different time. As the nation’s crises deepened, Obama’s deputies often ignored the president’s decisions—“to protect him from himself”—while they fought to seize control of a rudderless White House. Bitter disputes—between men and women, policy and politics—ruled the day. The result was an administration that found itself overtaken by events as, year to year, Obama struggled to grow into the world’s toughest job and, in desperation, take control of his own administration. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind intro-duces readers to an ensemble cast, from the titans of high finance to a new generation of reformers, from petulant congressmen and acerbic lobbyists to a tight circle of White House advisers—and, ultimately, to the president himself, as you’ve never before seen him. Based on hundreds of interviews and filled with piercing insights and startling disclosures, Confidence Men brings into focus the collusion and conflict between the nation’s two capitals—New York and Washington, one of private gain, the other of public purpose—in defining confidence and, thereby, charting America’s future.
The author of The Price of Loyalty documents failed terrorist attacks against Americans while revealing the Bush administration's efforts to outmaneuver increasingly adaptable and growing terrorist forces throughout the world. 200,000 first printing.
A devestating account of the inner workings of the George W. Bush administration, written with the extensive cooperation of former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. As readers are taken to the very epicentre of government, this news-making book offers a definitive view of Bush and his closest advisers as they manage crucial domestic policies and global strategies within the most secretive White House of modern times.
Ron Suskind, dziennikarz i laureat Nagrody Pulitzera, opisuje dwadzieścia lat
z życia swojej rodziny, dla której filmy Disneya stały się jedynym sposobem na
porozumiewanie się z synem Owenem. Chłopiec, u którego zdiagnozowano
zaburzenia ze spektrum autyzmu, przez lata nie posługiwał się mową uwielbiał
za to przesiadywać przed telewizorem i raz po raz oglądać te same bajki. Z
czasem nauczył się na pamięć kwestii oraz piosenek z ukochanych filmów,
przekształcając je we własny język. Słowami wypowiadanymi przez bohaterów i
ich pomocników zaczął wyrażać miłość, radość czy smutek. Tym samym wciągnął
bliskich do swojego animowanego świata.
