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Barack Obama: The Making of the Man
David Maraniss
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Paperback. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1058. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 53. Weight: 1058.
In Barack Obama, David Maraniss has written a sweeping narrative which reveals the real story of Obama's beginnings: child of a black man from Luoland and a white woman born in Kansas. He charts the fortunes of the two disparate families, polar opposites in every way, which produced these two extraordinary individuals, who met briefly in Hawaii, never cohabited, and married only to legitimize the child born of that union. 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 ... Read more
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Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848872806
SKU
V9781848872806
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About David Maraniss
David Maraniss is an associate editor at the Washington Post. He is the author of critically acclaimed best-selling books on Bill Clinton, Vietnam and the sixties, Roberto Clemente, and the 1960 Rome Olympics. He won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Clinton and has been a Pulitzer finalist three other times. He lives in Washington, DC and Madison, ... Read more
Reviews for Barack Obama: The Making of the Man
A revelatory book, which anyone interested in modern politics will want to read
James Fallows
New York Times Book Review
More like a sweeping epic novel of generations of a family than a political biography.
Christina Lamb
Sunday Times
James Fallows
New York Times Book Review
More like a sweeping epic novel of generations of a family than a political biography.
Christina Lamb
Sunday Times