
Two American icons - Obama and Springsteen - reveal their personal journeys through race, masculinity, and the American dream in this visually stunning dialogue. What happens when a President and a rockstar share their vulnerabilities? Michelle Obama says her husband learned plenty.
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In the summer of 2020, as pandemic fears and political divisions tore through America, two men from vastly different worlds sat down in a New Jersey farmhouse surrounded by guitars and recording equipment. Barack Obama-raised in Hawaii by a white mother, Harvard Law graduate, first Black president-faced Bruce Springsteen-working-class white rock star from Freehold, New Jersey. Their unlikely friendship had begun years earlier when Springsteen performed at Obama's campaign events, but deepened through conversations about their parallel journeys searching for America's soul and their own identities within it. "I'm a high school graduate from Freehold who plays guitar," Springsteen initially wondered. "What's wrong with this picture?" Yet their podcast "Renegades" quickly resonated with an America desperate for authentic dialogue across divides. What makes their connection so compelling isn't just their celebrity status, but how these two men from such different backgrounds discovered they'd been asking the same essential questions all along: What does it mean to be American? What obligations do we have to one another? And how do we become the people we hope to be?
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Criado por ex-alunos da Universidade de Columbia em San Francisco
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Criado por ex-alunos da Universidade de Columbia em San Francisco

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