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Title Barack Obama : the story / David Maraniss.

LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 General Collection  E908 .M368 2012    AVAILABLE
Description xxiii, 641 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Summary Based on hundreds of interviews and documents, this book chronicles the life of Barack Obama and the forces that shaped him, from early childhood through his adult years, as he became the first black president of the United States.
Subject Obama, Barack -- Childhood and youth.
Obama, Barack -- Family.
Hawaii -- Biography.
Obama, Barack -- Travel -- Africa.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Biographies.
Standard # 9781439160404
1439160406
9781439160411 paperback
1439160414 paperback
9781439167533 ebook
1439167532 ebook

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