David Mendell

David Mendell appears in the following:

Senate Seat for Sale?

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

David Mendell, Chicago Magazine blogger and the author of Obama: From Promise to Power, talks about the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich on corruption charges, including allegations that he sought to gain from the appointment to fill Barack Obama's Senate seat.

Question of the Day: How much would ...

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30 Issues: Management Styles and Decision Making

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and co-editor of Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, looks at how presidents' management styles say about their effectiveness as leaders.

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David Hawkings, managing editor of CQ Weekly, discusses ...

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Young Mr. Obama

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Former Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendell talks about his years covering Barack Obama's career and his new biography of the Illinois Senator and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate, Obama: From Promise to Power (Amistad, 2007).

Obama: From Promise to Power is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

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Young Mr. Obama

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

In his new biography of Barack Obama, former Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendell “deconstructs” the Illinois Senator and Democratic presidential candidate, writing that his rise has been long-planned by Obama and his close aides. Also, we follow up on the continuing fallout over the Deutsche Bank fire, and look at ...