Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick demonstrates how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, then as a Harvard Law School g
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
โ Scribed by Garrow, David J
- Book ID
- 109842251
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780062641830
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โฆ Synopsis
Rising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States --from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the Cross
Barack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catapulted him into the national spotlight and led to his election four years later as America's first African-American president. In this penetrating biography, David J. Garrow delivers an epic work about the life of Barack Obama, creating a rich tapestry of a life little understood, until now.
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama captivatingly describes Barack Obama's tumultuous upbringing as a young black man attending an almost-all-white, elite private school in Honolulu while being raised almost exclusively by his white grandparents. After recounting Obama's college years in California and New York, Garrow charts Obama's time as a...
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