| Edition |
First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xxiii, 641 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-609) 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 forces that shaped the first black president of the United States and explains why he thinks and acts as he does. |
| Subject |
Obama, Barack -- Childhood and youth.
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Obama, Barack -- Family.
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Hawaii -- Biography.
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Obama, Barack -- Travel -- Africa.
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9781439160411 paperback |
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9781439160404 hardcover $32.50 |
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1439160406 hardcover |
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