Michiko Kakutani reviews Renegade: The Making of a President, by Richard Wolffe, the MSNBC analyst who can claim the important distinction of having been in the tank and on the trail for almost as long as anyone else who covered Barack Obama's race for the White House. Wolffe claims Obama suggested that the reporter "write a Theodore White-type book" about the campaign (younger readers might want to click here); if so, it's yet another example of Obama's savvy press management.

Among the dazzling revelations: Obama "is idealistic but pragmatic, highly disciplined as a thinker and steady as his resting heart rate of 60 beats a minute – a Renegade (like his Secret Service code name) but a cautious, practical one." He was frustrated by the superficial nature of the campaign. He used his steel will to make himself a better candidate. He is, in short, the Superman we've all been taught to worship. Still, there's this:

Last January, Michelle and the girls left for Washington a day early to prepare for the start of school, leaving the president-elect rattling around in their house in Chicago for a day. "He found it hard to say goodbye to their old life and space," Mr. Wolffe writes. A friend of his daughter Malia "dropped off an album of photos of them together. As he flipped through the pages, sitting alone in his empty home, he cried." The following day, he left for the capital to ready himself for his inauguration as the 44th president of the United States.

Barack Obama cries! He shows human emotions! He feels the same joy and sadness and nostalgia and worry about his family that we all do! They should have called this sucker What's Not To Love?