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Barack Obama : the story / David Maraniss

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover edDescription: xxiii, 641 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781439160404
  • 1439160406
  • 9781439160411
  • 1439160414
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 973.932092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • E908 .M368 2012
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 forces that shaped the first black president of the United States and explains why he thinks and acts as he does
Item type: Book List(s) this item appears in: Black History - Selected Non-Fiction
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library BIOGRAPHY 921/OBA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39844500023797

Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-609) 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 forces that shaped the first black president of the United States and explains why he thinks and acts as he does

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