DAVID MENDELL's guest appearances

DAVID MENDELL

The Golden Mean 

Meyerson

Chicago Public Square Podcasts

Eric Zorn

David Axelrod

Steve Johnson

Jamie Kalven

Jeff Mauro

Peter Sagal

Steve James

Cory Doctorow

Barack Obama

Celinda Lake

Jim DeRogatis

Ben Cohen

Steve Glickman

Jonathan Greenblatt

Norman Ornstein

OwlTail

He’s Barack Obama’s first biographer. But journalist David Mendell doesn’t expect his award-winning 2007 book, Obama: From Promise to Power, to land a spot in Obama’s presidential library.Mendell and I were colleagues at the Chicago Tribune through much of the 2000s, but we barely exchanged hellos back then because he was so busy covering Obama’s rise to the U.S. Senate.So I learned a lot—including just how hard Obama worked to conceal his smoking habit—as Mendell and I finally got to catch up on-stage at Dominican University in River Forest, in this installment of the Wednesday Journal Conversations / Chicago Public Square Podcast series, recorded Nov. 20, 2019.Listen here, on your favorite podcast player, via Spotify and Pandora, on Amazon’s Alexa-powered speakers* or on iTunes (say “Hey, Siri! Play Chicago Public Square Podcasts”).Enjoying these? Keep them coming by joining The Legion of Chicago Public Squarians.*Even if you don’t have an Alexa speaker, you can turn iOS and Android phones into Alexa devices for free—a low-impact way to experiment with the technology.

He’s Barack Obama’s first biographer. But <a href="https://www.oakpark.com/News/Articles/11-12-2019/Obama-biographer-comes-to-WJ-Conversations/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">journalist David Mendell</a> doesn’t expect his award-winning 2007 book, Obama: From Promise to Power, to land a spot in Obama’s presidential library. <a href="https://ia801409.us.archive.org/14/items/davidmendell20191120/David%20Mendell%202019-11-20.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a>Mendell and I were colleagues at the Chicago Tribune through much of the 2000s, but we barely exchanged hellos back then because he was so busy covering Obama’s rise to the U.S. Senate. So I learned a lot—including just how hard Obama worked to conceal his smoking habit—as Mendell and I finally got to catch up on-stage at Dominican University in River Forest, in this installment of the Wednesday Journal Conversations / Chicago Public Square Podcast series, recorded Nov. 20, 2019. Listen <a href="https://archive.org/details/davidmendell20191120" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>, on <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/chicagopublicsquare/podcasts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">your favorite podcast player</a>, via <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3yOuep7nCTsCosebJOapSp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a> and <a href="https://www.pandora.com/podcast/chicago-public-square-podcasts/PC:22507?part=ug-desktop&amp;corr=2131863" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pandora</a>, on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B8XB1GB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon’s Alexa-powered speakers</a>* or on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/chicago-public-square-podcasts/id1332124770?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> (say “Hey, Siri! Play Chicago Public Square Podcasts”). Enjoying these? Keep them coming by joining <a href="https://www.chicagopublicsquare.com/2018/02/your-pledge-keeps-chicago-public-square.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Legion of Chicago Public Squarians</a>. *Even if you don’t have an Alexa speaker, you can turn <a href="https://www.cnet.com/how-to/amazon-echo-how-to-use-alexa-with-an-iphone/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iOS</a> and <a href="https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-use-alexa-with-an-android-phone/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Android</a> phones into Alexa devices for free—a low-impact way to experiment with the technology.

Barack Obama's 1st biographer, David Mendell: Michelle didn't care for the book

David Mendell is an award-winning journalist and author of the 2007 book Obama: From Promise To Power. David covered Barack Obama all the way back in 2003, when the then-State Senator ran as a candidate in Illinois for the U.S. Senate race. Now, with just five weeks left in his second terms in White House, Mendell talks about his memories of the the man when nobody knew him - and about Obama's high points and low points as our country's 44th president.

EPISODE 21: DAVID MENDELL, AUTHOR of OBAMA: FROM PROMISE TO POWER