{"id":23771,"date":"2012-06-15T23:49:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T23:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23771"},"modified":"2013-02-09T22:40:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T22:40:12","slug":"barack-obama-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23771","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama: The Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama: The Story<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Simon & Schuster<\/a>
\nJune 2012
\n672 pages
\nHardcover ISBN-10: 1439160406; ISBN-13: 9781439160404
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\nDavid Maraniss<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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From one of our preeminent journalists and modern historians comes the epic story of Barack Obama and the world that created him.
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\nIn Barack Obama: The Story<\/em>, David Maraniss has written a deeply reported generational biography teeming with fresh insights and revealing information, a masterly narrative drawn from hundreds of interviews, including with President Obama<\/a> in the Oval Office<\/a>, and a trove of letters, journals, diaries, and other documents.<\/p>\n

The book unfolds in the small towns of Kansas and the remote villages of western Kenya, following the personal struggles of Obama\u2019s white and black ancestors through the swirl of the twentieth century. It is a roots story on a global scale, a saga of constant movement, frustration and accomplishment, strong women and weak men, hopes lost and deferred, people leaving and being left. Disparate family threads converge in the climactic chapters as Obama reaches adulthood and travels from Honolulu to Los Angeles to New York to Chicago, trying to make sense of his past, establish his own identity, and prepare for his political future.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama: The Story<\/em> chronicles as never before the forces that shaped the first black president of the United States and explains why he thinks and acts as he does. Much like the author\u2019s classic study of Bill Clinton<\/a>, First in His Class<\/em>, this promises to become a seminal book that will redefine a president.<\/p>\n

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