Barack Obama
Subtitle: the story
By: by David Maraniss
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 641
ISBN-13: 9781439160404; 9781439160411; 9781439167533
Subjects: Presidents; Travel; Family; Childhood and youth; Biography
Description: Based on hundreds of interviews and documents, this book chronicles the forces that shaped the first black president of the United States and explains why he thinks and acts as he does.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : It's not even past; title: In search of El Dorado; title: Luoland; title: "In this our life"; title: Nairobi days; title: Afraid of smallness; title: Beautiful isle of somewhere; title: Hapa; title: Orbits; title: "Such a world"; title: Marked man; title: What school you went?; title: Barry Obama; title: Riding Poniyem; title: Mainland; title: End and beginning; title: The moviegoer; title: Genevieve and the veil; title: Finding and being found.