NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two longtime friends share an intimate and urgent conversation
about life music and their enduring love of America with all its challenges and
contradictions in this stunningly produced expansion of their groundbreaking Higher Ground
podcast featuring more than 350 photographs exclusive bonus content and never-before-seen
archival material. Renegades: Born in the USA is a candid revealing and entertaining dialogue
between President Barack Obama and legendary musician Bruce Springsteen that explores
everything from their origin stories and career-defining moments to our country’s polarized
politics and the growing distance between the American Dream and the American reality. Filled
with full-color photographs and rare archival material it is a compelling and beautifully
illustrated portrait of two outsiders—one Black and one white—looking for a way to connect
their unconventional searches for meaning identity and community with the American story
itself. It includes: • Original introductions by President Obama and Bruce Springsteen •
Exclusive new material from the Renegades podcast recording sessions • Obama’s
never-before-seen annotated speeches including his Remarks at the 50th Anniversary of the
Selma to Montgomery Marches” • Springsteen’s handwritten lyrics for songs spanning his
50-year-long career • Rare and exclusive photographs from the authors’ personal archives •
Historical photographs and documents that provide rich visual context for their conversation In
a recording studio stocked with dozens of guitars and on at least one Corvette ride Obama and
Springsteen discuss marriage and fatherhood race and masculinity the lure of the open road
and the call back to home. They also compare notes on their favorite protest songs the most
inspiring American heroes of all time and more. Along the way they reveal their passion
for—and the occasional toll of—telling a bigger truer story about America throughout their
careers and explore how our fractured country might begin to find its way back toward unity
and global leadership.
