The book will cover the discussions that Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama had on the podcast "Renegades: Born In The USA".
Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama will publish a joint book.

After joining forces on Spotify's "Renegades: Born In The USA" podcast, the acclaimed artist and the 44th President of the United States are working together again to tell their stories through the literary version of "Renegades".

The book will consist of 320 pages and will transmit the discussions made by Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama, while it will also include more than 350 color photographs, illustrations and archival content that has not seen the light of day.

In "Renegades: Born In The USA," an eight-episode podcast, Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama had a series of discussions about race, fatherhood, marriage, and the state of America.

"There have been serious discussions about the fate of the country, the property of its citizens and the destructive, ugly, corrupt forces that would want to bring it all down," Bruce Springsteen wrote in his introduction to the forthcoming book.

"It's a time of vigilance where we are being seriously tested. Difficult discussions about who we are and who we want to become can serve as a small guide for some of our fellow citizens. "This is a time to seriously consider who we want to be and to whom we will leave our children," he continues.

Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama first met in 2008 and then developed a deep friendship. When the former US president hosted the farewell ceremony for his term in the White House in 2016, Springsteen performed a secret handset set for staff.

"The discussions that Bruce and I had in 2020 seem as urgent today as they were then," wrote Barack Obama.

"They represent our ongoing effort to understand how we got here and how we can tell a more unifying story that will begin to close the gap between America's ideals and its reality," he said.

The book "Renegades: Born In The USA" will be released on October 26 by Penguin Random House in collaboration with Higher Ground, the production company of Barack and Michelle Obama.