Cover image for Barack Obama : the story
Barack Obama : the story
Title:
Barack Obama : the story
Author:
Maraniss, David.
ISBN:
9781439160404

9781439160411
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.
Physical Description:
xxiii, 641 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Introduction : It's not even past -- In search of El Dorado -- Luoland -- "In this our life" -- Nairobi days -- Afraid of smallness -- Beautiful isle of somewhere -- Hapa -- Orbits -- "Such a world" -- Marked man -- What school you went? -- Barry Obama -- Riding Poniyem -- Mainland -- End and beginning -- The moviegoer -- Genevieve and the veil -- Finding and being found.
Abstract:
Based on hundreds of interviews and documents, this book chronicles the forces that shaped the first black president of the United States and explains why he thinks and acts as he does.
Geographic Term:
Document ID:
SD_ILS:2062818
Holds: Copies: