Barack Obama : the story / David Maraniss.

Author/creator Maraniss, David
Format Book
Edition1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.
Descriptionxxiii, 641 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 579-609) and index.
LCCN 2011052983
ISBN9781439160404 (hardcover)
ISBN1439160406 (hardcover)
ISBN9781439160411 (pbk.)
ISBN1439160414 (pbk.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks E908 .M368 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold