Barack Obama

Name: Barack Obama
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ISBN: 9781848872806

The Making of the Man

David Maraniss

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Atlantic Books
01 June 2012

Biography; Biography: historical, political & military; History of the Americas; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Political leaders & leadership

In Barack Obama, David Maraniss has written a sweeping narrative which reveals the real story of Obama's beginnings: child of a black man from Luoland and a white woman born in Texas. He charts the fortunes of the two disparate families, polar opposites in every way, which produced these two extraordinary individuals, who met briefly in Hawaii, never cohabited, and married only to legitimize the child born of that union. At the heart of Obama's psyche and his political beliefs - and therefore his presidency - is his life-long struggle to understand the extreme duality of his identity. Maraniss explores his extraordinary journey from a mixed race boy raised by white grandparents in laid-back Hawaii to an African American with a burning political vision and vocation.

Barack Obama contains a wealth of new material. Maraniss reveals here previously unpublished love letters written by Obama as a young man in a search of an identity: black or white, writer or a man who could lead. He also includes the journal entries of Obama's first significant (white) girlfriend, which chart their intense relationship and the moment when young Barack realised that he must leave everything behind him and set out for Chicago in order to 'become' an African American. The story wrought here is one of fierce ambition, survival, and love.

By: David Maraniss
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Export and Airside ed
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 53mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9781848872806
ISBN 10: 1848872801
Pages: 656
Publication Date: 01 June 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Maraniss is an associate editor at the Washington Post. He is the author of critically acclaimed best-selling books on Bill Clinton, Vietnam and the sixties, Roberto Clemente, and the 1960 Rome Olympics. He won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Clinton and has been a Pulitzer finalist three other times. He lives in Washington, DC and Madison, Wisconsin.

Reviews for Barack Obama: The Making of the Man

More like a sweeping epic novel of generations of a family than a political biography. -- Christina Lamb * Sunday Times * A revelatory book, which anyone interested in modern politics will want to read -- James Fallows * New York Times Book Review *