PositiveSan Francisco ChronicleSavage is too much of a journalist — and a superb one — to be judgmental about his subject-in-chief. As a result, his book is sometimes inconclusive about Obama’s resolutions of tumultuous disputes, although it gives readers abundant evidence to draw their own conclusions. The author’s own conclusion might let the president off the hook a bit, but it was hard for this reader, at least, to dispute.