Sure We Did: Pictures and Behind-the-Scenes Tales Celebrating Our First African American President

“Eight years within the White Home glided by so quick. That is why I am so grateful that Lawrence was there to seize them. I hope you get pleasure from his work as a lot as I do.”
–From the foreword by Barack Obama

When Lawrence Jackson took the job as White Home photographer in early 2009, he knew he’d have a entrance row seat to historical past. What he did not anticipate was the deep private connection he would really feel, as a fellow African American, with the President of the US.

Sure We Didis crammed with Lawrence’s intimate pictures and reflections, in addition to first-person recollections from President Obama, on a regular basis residents, and notable personalities together with Bono, Stephen Curry, Valerie Jarrett, Admiral Mike Mullen, and others. The e-book is a celebration of essentially the most inclusive and consultant White Home in historical past – the place in between momentous and pivotal selections, the President and First Woman opened the doorways of the Individuals’s Home to schoolkids, athletes, senior residents, hip-hop artists, and extra.

For anybody who misses the humanity, grace, and undefinable “cool issue” of the Obama White Home, this heat and galvanizing e-book offers an affirming, proud, and targeted lens on our historical past.

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