Barack Obama - Renegades : Born in the USA

FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA:

My gratitude to Michelle, Malia, and Sasha, for the endless joy theyve granted me.

Thank you to the Higher Ground team, including Joe Paulsen, Dan Fierman, Anna Holmes, Mukta Mohan, and Janae Marable, for your tireless efforts in creating the podcast that inspired this book.

FROM BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN:

A special thanks to Patti Scialfa for her encouragement and inspiration. And to Evan, Jess, and Sam Springsteen.

Thanks to Michelle Holme, Thom Zimny, Rob DeMartin, Jonathan Erhlich, Don Friedman, Jon Landau, Barbara Carr, Jan Stabile, and Alison Oscar.

FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA AND BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN:

Thank you, also, to the Penguin Random House team, for helping us share this book with the world. At PRH, special thanks to Markus Dohle and Madeline McIntosh, for your enthusiasm for this project; to Gina Centrello, David Drake, Aaron Wehner, and Annsley Rosner, for your continued partnership; to Chris Brand, for your design vision, which brought this book to life so beautifully on the page; to Gillian Blake, Lorena Jones, Rachel Klayman, Matt Inman, Madison Jacobs, and Alonzo Vereen, for your editorial guidance; and to Lizzie Allen, Todd Berman, Denise Cronin, Skip Dye, Sally Franklin, Lisa Gonzalez, Derek Gullino, Anna Kochman, Ebony LaDelle, Cynthia Lasky, Matthew Martin, Annette Melvin, Dyana Messina, Jenny Poeuch, Matt Schwartz, Patricia Shaw, Holly Smith, Anke Steinecke, Chris Tanigawa, Jaci Updike, Claire von Schilling, Daniel Wikey, and Stacey Witcraft, for your valuable contributions. And to Deneen Howell at Williams & Connolly and Kate Schatz.

Misha Euceph, Arwen Nicks, Mary Knauf, Andrew Eapen, and the team at Dustlight, thank you for bringing our conversations to life.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is the recipient of twenty Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and a Kennedy Center Honor. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Born to Run and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016. He lives in New Jersey with his family.

BARACK OBAMA was the forty-fourth president of the United States, elected in November 2008 and holding office for two terms. He is the author of three New York Times bestselling books, Dreams from My Father, The Audacity of Hope, and A Promised Land, and is the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Michelle. They have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.

After delivering this eulogy, President Obama went directly to the airport, flew to New Jersey, and recorded the Renegades conversations in this book.

To read the live text of the following speech, go to . This annotated speech draft is reproduced as it appears in President Obamas archives.

To prepare for his conversation with President Obama, Bruce Springsteen filled a notebook with his thoughts, ideas, and reflections. This selection shows his prep for Episode 4: Traveling the US and Finding Home and Episode 8: Looking Toward American Renewal.

To read the live text of the following notes, go to .