Barack Obama. The Making Of The Man

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 643 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In Barack Obama, David Maraniss has written a sweeping narrative that reveals the real story of Obama's beginnings: child of a black man from Luoland and a white woman born in Texas. 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 is lifelong struggle to understand the extreme duality of his identity. Maraniss explores his extraordinary journey from a mixed-race boy raised by white grandparents in laid-back Hawaii to a young black man with a burning political vision and vocation.Barack Obama contains a wealth of new material. Maraniss reveals previously unpublished letters written by Obama as a young man in search of an identity: black or white, writer or leader. He also includes the journal entries of Obama's first significant girlfriend, which chart their intense relationship and the moment when the young Barack realised taht he must leave everything behind and set out for Chicago to 'become' an African American. The story wrought here is one of fierce ambition, survival and love.

ISBN: 9781848872806