Tag: David Maraniss

  • Obama on Trayvon Martin: The first black president speaks out first as a black American The Washington Post 2013-07-20 David Maraniss Trayvon Martin, the president said, could have been him 35 years ago. That would have been Barack Obama at age 17, then known as Barry and living in Honolulu. He had a bushy Afro.…

  • Young Barry Wins The New York Review of Books 2012-08-16 Darryl Pinckney Barack Obama: The Story. By David Maraniss. Simon and Schuster, 641 pp. A white friend told me recently that he heard someone complain that he’d voted for the black guy last time around, did he have to do it again—as if Obama’s election…

  • How Obama became black The Washington Post 2011-06-14 David Maraniss He was too dark in Indonesia. A hapa child — half and half — in Hawaii. Multicultural in Los Angeles. An “Invisible Man” in New York. And finally, Barack Obama was black on the South Side of Chicago. This journey of racial self-discovery and reinvention…

  • Barack Obama: The Story Simon & Schuster June 2012 672 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 1439160406; ISBN-13: 9781439160404 David Maraniss From one of our preeminent journalists and modern historians comes the epic story of Barack Obama and the world that created him. In Barack Obama: The Story, David Maraniss has written a deeply reported generational biography teeming…

  • President Obama’s basketball love affair has roots in Hawaii high school team The Washington Post 2012-06-09 David Maraniss To say that President Obama loves basketball understates the role of the sport in his life. He has been devoted to the game for 40 years now, ever since the father he did not know and never…