Pioneers
Subtitle: the frontier family of Barack Obama
By: Stephen MacDonogh
Publisher: Brandon; Dufour Editions
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dingle, Ireland; Chester Springs, Pennsylvania
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780863224331
Subjects: Irish Americans; Family; Frontier and pioneer life; Genealogy; Presidents; History
Description: Tells the story of the Irish ancestry of Barack Obama's mother, Ann Dunham. "Her great-great grandfather who immigrated from the small village of Moneygall in Ireland to the Scioto Valley in Ohio, and of his relatives who made the journey before him. This Irish family, the Kearneys, came first to Baltimore, Maryland, then moved west with the frontier to Ohio... [and] further, to Indiana ... before many of the Dunhams and Kearneys moved on to Kansas, some to Oklahoma ... [This is] a poignant evocation of Ireland's darkest years, America's pioneering past and ow the two are intertwined in a dramatic narrative encapsulating the American Dream ... This is also the story of the eighteenth century Irish Protestant immigrants."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-300)

"First published in 2010 by Brandon, an imprint of Mount Eagle Publications, Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland, and c/o Dufour Editions Inc., PO Box 7, Chester Springs, PA 19425" -- t.p. verso.

"A Brandon hardback original"-- t.p. verso.