num_pages: 672
description: From one of our preeminent journalists and modern historians comes the epic story of Barack Obama and the world that created him. In Barack 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 Obamas 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 Yor
language: English
title: Barack Obama: The Story
publisher: Simon & Schuster