"THE FUTURE DEPENDS ON OUR ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE HOW WE'RE ALL A PART OF THE AMERICAN STORY": RENEGADES: BORN IN THE USA, SIGNED BY BOTH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND BARACK OBAMA

OBAMA, Barack, and SPRINGSTEEN, Bruce. Renegades: Born in the USA. New York: Crown, (2021). Quarto, original black cloth, original cardboard slipcase; housed in original shipping carton. $1200.

Deluxe signed limited first edition, one of an unknown number of copies signed by both Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama, of this volume born out of the podcast of the same name, profusely illustrated.

The 2021 eight-episode podcast Renegades: Born in the USA, featured a series of wide-ranging conversations between Springsteen and Obama, who first became friends when Springsteen appeared at numerous Obama rallies in 2008. Springsteen writes in his introduction: "We started at the start: growing up, our similarities, our differences. Hawaii, New Jersey… pretty different; absentee fathers… pretty similar. We then let the conversation expand as life itself does. We explored the way you start to put together an identity, from a pose, a photo, a piece of music, a movie, a cultural hero. We examined the way you struggle to find your strengths, your potency, your manhood. We delved into how that shapes your art, your politics, and the way you are going to live your life. It was all about life and how it is lived, the world as it stands and the efforts we have made to shape that world, me through my music and Barack through his politics, in to the kind of place we feel it should be."

Fine condition.