The Writer Within

Barack Obama's Work in Progress

By Robert Draper

Photograph by Callie Shell/Aurora

November 2009

Over the past few years, we’ve gotten to know our president as a lot of different things: campaigner, lawyer, father, basketballer. But what if Obama’s first and truest calling—his desire to write—explains more about him than anything else? Robert Draper recounts the untold story of the first man since Teddy Roosevelt to serve as author in chief more>>