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The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father
PublicAffairs
July 2011
On Sale: July 12, 2011
336 pages
ISBN: 1586487930
EAN: 9781586487935
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Barack Obama Sr., father of the American president, was part
of Africa's "independence generation" and in 1959 it seemed
his star would shine brightly. He came to the U.S. from
Kenya and was given a university scholarship. While in the
Hawaii, he met Ann Dunham in 1961, and his son Barack was
born. He left his young family to gain a master's degree
from Harvard. After that, Obama's life became progressively more
complicated. He was a brilliant economist, yet never held
the coveted government job he felt should have been his. He
was a polygamist, an alcoholic, and an ardent African
nationalist unafraid to tell truth to power at a time when
that could get you killed. Father of eight, nurturer of
none, he was an unlikely person to father the first African
American president of the United States. Yet he was, like
that son, a man moved by the dream of a better world. Now, thanks to dozens of exclusive new interviews,
prodigious research, and determined investigation, Sally
Jacobs tells his full story.
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