First Cameraman: Documenting the Obama Presidency in Real Time
“Arun was New Media? I always assumed he was CIA!”—David Axelrod, Former Senior Advisor to President Obama and Senior Strategist, Obama for America “With grace and good humor, Chaudhary weaves together his recollections of the Obama campaign and the White House with the theory and history of film in American politics. But you might not realize how much you’re learning, because you’re having too much fun.”—Richard Ben Cramer, author ofWhat It TakesandJoe DiMaggio “So interesting to finally learn what whatshisname’s job actually was, I used to just ask him if he knew where the president went.”—Rahm Emanuel, Mayor of the City of Chicago and Former White House Chief of Staff “First Cameramantells a refreshing story about American politics—it’s that what you see is what you get. What the camera saw in Barack Obama in 2008 is what the cameraman himself discovered off-camera. Wow!”—Chris Matthews, Host ofHardballandThe Chris Matthews Showand bestselling author ofJack Kennedy: Elusive Hero “If John F. Kennedy was the first television president, then Barack Obama is the first YouTube president—and Arun Chaudhary, the first first videographer, captured the images that mark a seismic shift in the way American politics is practiced.”—Dee Dee Myers, former White House Press Secretary and author ofWhy Women Should Rule the World