The Resource Barack Obama : the story, David Maraniss
Barack Obama : the story, David Maraniss
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
- Extent
- xxiii, 641 p., [16] p. of plates
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781439160411
- Label
- Barack Obama : the story
- Title
- Barack Obama
- Title remainder
- the story
- Statement of responsibility
- David Maraniss
- Subject
-
- truePresidents -- United States -- Biography
- trueObama, Barack -- Family
- Hawaii -- Biography
- trueHawaii
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography
- trueObama, Barack -- Travel -- Africa
- trueAfrican Americans -- Biography
- trueObama, Barack -- Childhood and youth
- truePoliticians' families
- trueUnited States -- Politics and government
- trueLife stories -- Politics | Politicians
- trueBiographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Summary
- Based on interviews with the President himself and a wealth of letters, journals, and other documents, Maraniss' account spans Obama's childhood and political beginnings. Offering startling new insights, Maraniss reveals a man who struggled with his race and identity at a young age, but later embraced his strong character and ambition to rise to America's highest seat of power
- Award
-
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2012.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2012.
- Biography type
- individual biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10115754
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
-
- 973.932092
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E908
- LC item number
- .M368 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- the story
- Label
- Barack Obama : the story, David Maraniss
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 607-609) and index
- 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
- Control code
- 5568933
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
- Extent
- xxiii, 641 p., [16] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9781439160411
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2011052983
- Other physical details
- ill., maps
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn742509889
- (OCoLC)742509889
- Label
- Barack Obama : the story, David Maraniss
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 607-609) and index
- 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
- Control code
- 5568933
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
- Extent
- xxiii, 641 p., [16] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9781439160411
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2011052983
- Other physical details
- ill., maps
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn742509889
- (OCoLC)742509889
Subject
- trueAfrican Americans -- Biography
- trueBiographies
- trueHawaii
- Hawaii -- Biography
- trueLife stories -- Politics | Politicians
- trueObama, Barack -- Childhood and youth
- trueObama, Barack -- Family
- trueObama, Barack -- Travel -- Africa
- truePoliticians' families
- truePresidents -- United States -- Biography
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography
- trueUnited States -- Politics and government
Genre
Included in
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Biography Books: 2012
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Nonfiction: 2012
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