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Rising Star - The Making of Barack Obama (Paperback)
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Rising Star - The Making of Barack Obama (Paperback)
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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. 'Impressive ... deeply reported' New
York Times Book Review 'Engages, absorbs and mesmerises' Library
Journal 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
after that he would make history as America's first black
president. 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 delivers
the most authoritative account of the ambition, the dreams and the
all-too-human struggles of an iconic president.
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