{"id":43490,"date":"2015-10-26T00:54:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T00:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43490"},"modified":"2015-10-27T00:37:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T00:37:27","slug":"young-mr-obama-chicago-and-the-making-of-a-black-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43490","title":{"rendered":"Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/young-mr-obama-9781608190607\/\" target=\"_blank\">Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomsbury Press<\/a><br \/>\n2010<br \/>\n288 pages<br \/>\n5 1\/2&#8243; x 8 1\/4&#8243;<br \/>\nHardback ISBN: 9781608190607<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/edwardmcclelland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edward McClelland<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/young-mr-obama-9781608190607\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.bloomsbury.com\/rep\/bj\/9781608190607.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama&#8217;s<\/a> inspirational politics and personal mythology have overshadowed his fascinating history. <em>Young Mr. Obama<\/em> gives us the missing chapter: the portrait of the politician as a young leader, often too ambitious for his own good, but still equipped with a rare ability to inspire change. The route to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_House\" target=\"_blank\">White House<\/a> began on the streets of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Side,_Chicago\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago&#8217;s South Side<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Edward McClelland, a veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a> journalist, tells the real story of the first black president&#8217;s political education in the capital of the African American political community. Obama&#8217;s touch wasn&#8217;t always golden, and the unflappable and charismatic campaigner we know today nearly derailed his political career with a disastrous run for Congress in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Obama learned from his mistakes, and rebuilt his public persona. <em>Young Mr. Obama<\/em> is a masterpiece of political reporting, peeling away the audacity, the T-shirts, and the inspiring speeches to craft a compelling and surpassingly readable account of how local politics shaped a national leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President Bloomsbury Press 2010 288 pages 5 1\/2&#8243; x 8 1\/4&#8243; Hardback ISBN: 9781608190607 Edward McClelland Barack Obama&#8217;s inspirational politics and personal mythology have overshadowed his fascinating history. Young Mr. Obama gives us the missing chapter: the portrait of the politician as a young leader, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,1245,11,8,17,26,20],"tags":[21640,3027,21639,5488],"class_list":["post-43490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-biography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-politics","category-usa","tag-bloomsbury-press","tag-chicago","tag-edward-mcclelland","tag-illinois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43514,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43490\/revisions\/43514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}