Obama
By: David Mendell
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Amistad/HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780060858216; 9780061689406
Subjects: Legislators; Racially mixed people; Presidents; United States. Congress. Senate; United States; African American legislators; Biography
Other titles: Obama, from promise to power
Description: A journalist who has covered the senator and presidential candidate since his campaign for the Senate offers a portrait that features his childhood and youth in Hawaii and his embrace of seemingly ruthless campaign tactics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The ascent; title: Dreams from his mother; title: Just call me Barry; title: The mainland; title: The organizer; title: Harvard; title: Sweet home Chicago; title: Politics; title: The legislator; title: The New Rochelle train; title: The candidate; title: The consultant; title: The race factor; title: The real deal; title: Hull on wheels; title: The small screen; title: A victory lap; title: A dash to the center; title: The Ryan files; title: The speech; title: Back to Illinois; title: The senator; title: South Africa; title: Nairobi; title: Siaya : a father's home; title: LeBron revisited.