Hi Amanda,

I’m running off to a meeting but I wonder if this oral history from politico-turned-journalist Chris Liddell-Westefeld describes what you’re after? He spent a year collecting “over 200 oral history interviews with alumni of the caucus effort.” It asks these questions: How did one of the whitest states in the union propel the first African-American president to the nomination? What about him captured Iowans’ imaginations? What compelled hundreds of young people to uproot their lives and join a movement considered so unlikely in its nascent stages?

I just finished Michelle Obama’s book Becoming and she also describes the Iowa race in depth.

Hope this helps!

Lindsay