Ben wallace wells biography for kids

Ben Wallace-Wells writes a fantastic article for The New York Times featuring David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s chief strategist, or by his own description the “keeper of the message.” The article demonstrates the crucial role of biographies, storytelling and the hero’s journey.

Barack Obama has currently two memoirs in circulation.

Ben wallace wells biography for kids

The first, Dreams From My Father, is the story of his life growing up and as a community organizer; the second, The Audacity of Hope, is more idealistic in nature with an account of his outlook on current issues.

Although the latter has the intention of persuading people to vote, the former did the trick for me. Why? Because it has the more obvious story.

Axelrod describes a video he edited for Obama’s Web site to coincide with the candidate’s announcement:

“When you finish watching the video, you don’t have a particularly good sense of Obama as a politician (you might be able to say tha