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The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother
Riverhead Hardcover
May 2011
On Sale: May 3, 2011
384 pages
ISBN: 1594487979
EAN: 9781594487972
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Non-Fiction
A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the
life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack
Obama-his mother. Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but
little is known about Stanley Ann Dunham, the fiercely
independent woman who raised him, the person he credits for,
as he says, "what is best in me." Here is the missing piece
of the story. Award-winning reporter Janny Scott interviewed nearly two
hundred of Dunham's friends, colleagues, and relatives
(including both her children), and combed through boxes of
personal and professional papers, letters to friends, and
photo albums, to uncover the full breadth of this woman's
inspiring and untraditional life, and to show the remarkable
extent to which she shaped the man Obama is today. Dunham's story moves from Kansas and Washington state to
Hawaii and Indonesia. It begins in a time when interracial
marriage was still a felony in much of the United States,
and culminates in the present, with her son as our
president- something she never got to see. It is a poignant
look at how character is passed from parent to child, and
offers insight into how Obama's destiny was created early,
by his mother's extraordinary faith in his gifts, and by her
unconventional mothering. Finally, it is a heartbreaking
story of a woman who died at age fifty-two, before her son
would go on to his greatest accomplishments and reflections
of what she taught him.
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