Barack Obama
Subtitle: the making of the man
By: David Maraniss
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 643
ISBN-13: 9781848872813
Subjects: Families; Family; Presidents; Travel; Childhood and youth; Biography
Description: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. Barack Obama reveals the real story of Obama's beginnings: child of a black man from Luoland and a white woman born in Kansas. At the heart of Obama's psyche and his political beliefs - and therefore his presidency - is his life-long struggle to understand the extreme duality of his identity. Maraniss explores his extraordinary journey from a mixed race boy raised by white grandparents in laid-back Hawaii to an African America with a burning political vision and vocation. Maraniss reveals here previously unpublished love letters written by Obama as a young man in a search of an identity: black or white, writer or a man who could lead. The story wrought here is one of fierce ambition, survival, and love.
Notes: Originally published: New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-609) and index.