"It's going to be important": Ibid.

"I don't think we're trying to dampen": David Mendell, Chicago Tribune Tribune, November 4, 2004.

On ABC's daytime show: Rudolph Bush, Chicago Tribune Tribune, November 23, 2004.

On Letterman's show: "The Late Show," CBS, November 26, 2004.

Adopting a tone: Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times Sun-Times, December 6, 2004.

She was inspired to re-issue: Janny Scott, New York Times Times, May 18, 2008.

Woodward once called him: Ibid.

Although Peter Osnos: Peter Osnos, The Century Foundation: News and Commentary The Century Foundation: News and Commentary, October 30, 2006.

He met with Obama: Wolffe, Renegade Renegade, p. 38.

"I know what I'm good at": Pete Rouse interview, "Frontline," PBS, July 11, 2008.

Obama told Rouse: Ibid.

He planned to help Obama: Ibid.

Oprah Winfrey declared: Jeff Zeleny, Chicago Tribune Tribune, March 20, 2005.

At times, Obama's celebrity: Ibid.

One of the first books: Jeff Zeleny and Kate Zernike, New York Times Times, March 9, 2008.

Nevertheless, Obama told: Jeff Zeleny, Chicago Tribune Tribune, March 20, 2005.

"All of us are a mixture": Ibid.

When Obama paid a visit: Ibid.

At the swearing-in ceremony: Ibid.

"Over the next six years": Ibid.

During Rice's confirmation hearings: Ben Wallace-Wells, "Destiny's Child," Rolling Stone Rolling Stone, February 22, 2007.

Faced with the prospect: Jeff Zeleny, Chicago Tribune Tribune, September 23, 2005.

"So we enter into the building": Barack Obama, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C., November 1, 2005.

Three months after: Barack Obama and Richard Lugar, Washington Post Post, December 3, 2005.

Then, appearing on ABC's: "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," ABC, September 11, 2005.

In an interview with the Tribune Tribune: Jeff Zeleny, Chicago Tribune Tribune, September 12, 2005.

"The burden is on us": Ibid.

Eventually, Pete Rouse: Perry Bacon, Jr., Washington Post Post, August 27, 2007.

"Pete's very good": Ibid.

The letter was ent.i.tled: Daily Kos, September 30, 2005.

Afterward, Obama used: Jodi Enda, "Great Expectations," The American Prospect The American Prospect, January 16, 2006.

"And the way I would describe": Ibid.

Returning to Washington: Jeff Zeleny, Chicago Tribune Tribune, February 7, 2006.

"I obviously beaned him": Mark Salter interview, "Frontline," PBS, May 30, 2008.

"The tone of the letter": Jeff Zeleny, Chicago Tribune Tribune, February 8, 2006.

Before they testified: Jeff Zeleny, Chicago Tribune Tribune, February 9, 2006.

"What I am suggesting is this": Barack Obama, Washington, D.C., June 28, 2006.

Valerie Jarrett says: Larissa MacFarquhar, "The Conciliator," The New Yorker The New Yorker, May 7, 2007.

"I thought these will be": "World News Tonight," ABC, November 1, 2007.

On January 16, 2006: Balz and Johnson, The Battle for America 2008 The Battle for America 2008, p. 26.

"He has as much potential": Jeff Zeleny, Chicago Tribune Tribune, November 20, 2005.

"When his name pops up": Ibid.

"I thought, let's have a little fun": Perry Bacon, Jr., Washington Post Post, August 27, 2007.

"I don't think George Bush": Barack Obama, Harkin Steak Fry, Indianola, Iowa, September 17, 2006.

Ruy Teixeira of the Brookings: Alan Abramowitz and Ruy Teixeira, "The Decline of the White Working Cla.s.s and the Rise of a Ma.s.s Upper Middle Cla.s.s," Brookings Working Paper, April 2008.

When he called Obama: Bob Gilbert, "The President Prediction," Seton Hall Magazine Seton Hall Magazine, March 31, 2009.

"The United States was said": Chisholm, The Good Fight The Good Fight, p. 162.

Chisholm, who died in 2005: Chisholm, Unbought and Unbossed Unbought and Unbossed, p. xii.

"My const.i.tuency": Jesse Jackson, Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, July 17, 1984.

At rallies in the South: Frady, Jesse Jesse, p. 306.

"Nothing will ever again": Ibid., p. 370.

Jackson, Hatcher said: Ibid., p. 417.

The inc.u.mbent, the Vice-President: Wallace, The Man The Man, p. 251.

Joe Klein, writing in Time Time: Joe Klein, "The Fresh Face," Time Time, October 15, 2006.

And David Brooks: David Brooks, New York Times Times, October 19, 2006.

In January, Obama had kept: "Meet the Press," NBC, October 22, 2006.

For a Time Time cover story cover story: Joe Klein, "The Fresh Face," Time Time, October 15, 2006.

In David Axelrod's Chicago office: Balz and Johnson, The Battle for America The Battle for America, p. 28.

"I said to him, 'Do you really think'": Jill Zuckman, Chicago Tribune Tribune, October 18, 2006.

Tom Daschle, who gave up a chance: Tom Daschle interview, "Frontline," PBS, June 10, 2008.

"Because I do see in him": Jeff Zeleny, Chicago Tribune Tribune, December 25, 2005.

On November 28, 2006: Balz and Johnson, The Battle for America 2008 The Battle for America 2008, p. 29.

Echoing the advice of Durbin: Ibid., p. 30.

In mid-December, Obama: Pete Rouse interview, "Frontline," PBS, July 11, 2008.

When Obama came home: Ibid.

Late at night, on January 6th: Plouffe, The Audacity to Win The Audacity to Win, p. 27.

Chapter Thirteen: The Sleeping Giant.

"The genius of our founders": Barack Obama, Springfield, Illinois, February 10, 2007.

A couple of days before: Ben Wallace-Wells, "Destiny's Child," Rolling Stone Rolling Stone, February 22, 2007.

"This is a f.u.c.king disaster": Plouffe, The Audacity to Win The Audacity to Win, p. 40.

"Look, Obama is a very decent": Cornel West, State of the Black Union, Hampton, Virginia, February 10, 2007.

"He's young, he's inexperienced": Charles Ogletree, State of the Black Union, Hampton, Virginia, February 10, 2007.

The Obama campaign took polls: Plouffe, The Audacity to Win The Audacity to Win, p. 124.

The near absence of Jackson: "Sat.u.r.day Night Live," NBC, March 2, 2008.

Just after Lincoln: Mendelberg, The Race Card The Race Card, p. 36.

Speakers at the Democratic Convention: Ibid., p. 39.

In 1868, Georges Clemenceau: Ibid., p. 43.

One of its campaign badges: Ibid., p. 45.

Democratic Party-controlled newspapers: Ibid., p. 47.

In the United States between 1890: Ibid., p. 58.

James Thomas Heflin: Branch, Parting the Waters Parting the Waters, p. 51.

Southern politicians, like Theodore Bilbo: Mendelberg, The Race Card The Race Card, p. 71.

During a Senate hearing in 1946: Ibid.

George Wallace dropped: Ibid., p. 91.

After filming a commercial: Ibid., p. 97.

Bush pressed the Horton case: Ibid., p. 142.

Bush's media consultant: Ibid.

On December 21, 2006: Joshua Green, "The Hillary Clinton Memos," The Atlantic The Atlantic, August 11, 2008.

Three months later: Ibid.

"I can maybe work with him": Frady, Jesse Jesse, p. 493.

"The initiative displayed the parochial": Randall Kennedy, "The Triumph of Robust Tokenism," The Atlantic The Atlantic, February 2001.

Speaking on television in December: "Newsmakers Live," December 2007.

The Reverend Joseph Lowery: Paige Bowers, "A Civil Rights Divide Over Obama," Time Time, January 31, 2008.

"These old black politicians": Logan Hill, "How I Made It: Spike Lee on 'Do the Right Thing,'" New York Magazine New York Magazine, April 7, 2008.

George H. W. Bush once called him: Frady, Jesse Jesse, p. 5.

Mario Cuomo, however: Ibid., p. 14.

"When you are unkind to the homeless": Ibid., p. 48.