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The Story
Simon & Schuster
June 2012
On Sale: June 19, 2012
672 pages
ISBN: 1439160406
EAN: 9781439160404
Kindle: B005GG0KZ8
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Non-Fiction
From one of our preeminent journalists and modern historians
comes the epic story of Barack Obama and the world that
created him. In Barack Obama: The Story, David Maraniss has written a
deeply reported generational biography teeming with fresh
insights and revealing information, a masterly narrative
drawn from hundreds of interviews, including with President
Obama in the Oval Office, and a trove of letters, journals,
diaries, and other documents. The book unfolds in the small towns of Kansas and the remote
villages of western Kenya, following the personal struggles
of Obama’s white and black ancestors through the swirl of
the twentieth century. It is a roots story on a global
scale, a saga of constant movement, frustration and
accomplishment, strong women and weak men, hopes lost and
deferred, people leaving and being left. Disparate family
threads converge in the climactic chapters as Obama reaches
adulthood and travels from Honolulu to Los Angeles to New
York to Chicago, trying to make sense of his past, establish
his own identity, and prepare for his political future. Barack Obama: The Story chronicles as never before the
forces that shaped the first black president of the United
States and explains why he thinks and acts as he does. Much
like the author’s classic study of Bill Clinton, First in
His Class, this promises to become a seminal book that will
redefine a president.
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