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Rising Star - The Making of Barack Obama (Hardcover)
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Rising Star - The Making of Barack Obama (Hardcover)
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The definitive account of Barack Obama's life before he became the
44th president of the United States - the formative years,
confluence of forces, and influential figures who helped shaped an
extraordinary leader and his rise - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of Bearing the Cross. Barack Obama's keynote speech at the
2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catapulted the
little-known state senator from Illinois into the national
spotlight. Three months later, Obama would win election to the U.S.
Senate; four years later he would make history as America's first
black president. Now, at the end of his second presidential term,
David J. Garrow delivers the most compelling and comprehensive
Obama biography - as epic in vision and rigorous in detail as
Robert Caro's The Power Broker. Moving around the globe, from
Hawaii to Indonesia to the American Northeast and Midwest, Rising
Star meticulously unpacks Obama's life, from his tumultuous
upbringing in Honolulu and Jakarta, to his formative time as a
community organizer on Chicago's South Side, working in some of the
roughest neighborhoods, to Cambridge, where he excelled at Harvard
Law School, and finally back to Chicago, where he pursued his
political destiny. In voluminous detail, drawn from more than 1,000
interviews and encyclopedic documentary research, Garrow reveals as
never before the ambition, the dreams, and the all-too-human
struggles of an iconic president in a sure to be news-making
biography that will stand as the most authoritative account of
Obama's pre-presidential life for decades to come.
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