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Barack Obama : the story / David Maraniss.

By: Maraniss, David.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 607-609) and index.Description: xxiii, 641 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781439160404; 1439160406; 9781439160411 (pbk.); 1439160414 (pbk.); 9781439167533 (ebook); 1439167532 (ebook).Subject(s): Obama, Barack -- Childhood and youth | Obama, Barack -- Family | Obama, Barack -- Travel -- Africa | Presidents -- United States -- Biography | Hawaii -- BiographyDDC classification: 973.932092 | B
Contents:
Introduction : It's not even past -- In search of El Dorado -- Luoland -- "In this our life" -- Nairobi days -- Afraid of smallness -- Beautiful isle of somewhere -- Hapa -- Orbits -- "Such a world" -- Marked man -- What school you went? -- Barry Obama -- Riding Poniyem -- Mainland -- End and beginning -- The moviegoer -- Genevieve and the veil -- Finding and being found.
Summary: Based on hundreds of interviews and documents, this book chronicles the life of Barack Obama and the forces that shaped him, from early childhood through his adult years, as he became the first black president of the United States.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 607-609) and index.

Introduction : It's not even past -- In search of El Dorado -- Luoland -- "In this our life" -- Nairobi days -- Afraid of smallness -- Beautiful isle of somewhere -- Hapa -- Orbits -- "Such a world" -- Marked man -- What school you went? -- Barry Obama -- Riding Poniyem -- Mainland -- End and beginning -- The moviegoer -- Genevieve and the veil -- Finding and being found.

Based on hundreds of interviews and documents, this book chronicles the life of Barack Obama and the forces that shaped him, from early childhood through his adult years, as he became the first black president of the United States.

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