ontd_political: Barack Obama's Work in Progress

Five weeks later, he stands in a hotel conference room in Hyde Park, and before a crowd of 200â€"a gathering far greater than any he has seen on the promotional circuitâ€"he announces his candidacy for the Illinois State Senate. .... “I don't recall a blessed thing,” says Elaine Pfefferblit, the Poseidon editor who acquired Obama's book. Says the former editorial director at Poseidon, Ann Patty, who killed a book that now has more than 3 million copies in print, ...