The heart of Believer is Axelrod‘s twenty-year friendship with Barack Obama. Taking achance on an unlikely candidate for the U.S. Senate, Axelrod collaborated closely with Obamaand helped mastermind his tremendous victories in 2008 and 2012. Axelrod then served inthe White House, working at the president‘s side as he battled an economic disaster, navigated America through two wars, and fought to reform health care, the financial sector, and our gridlocked political institutions. - P514