Rising star : the making of Barack Obama

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The work Rising star : the making of Barack Obama represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Rising star : the making of Barack Obama

Title remainder

the making of Barack Obama

Statement of responsibility

David J. Garrow

Creator

• Garrow, David J., 1953-

Author

• Garrow, David J., 1953-

Subject

• Biography & non-fiction prose
• Biography: historical, political & military
• East Africa
• English
• General & world history
• History of the Americas
• Kenya
• Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999
• African history
• Obama, Barack
• Political leaders & leadership
• Presidents -- United States -- Biography
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
• United States of America, USA
• c 2010 to c 2019
• North America
• Biography

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

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'.

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 973.932092
• 973.9'32'092
• 973.932092

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

LC call number

E908

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Summary expansion

The definitive account of Barack Obamas 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 Americas first black president. Moving around the globe, from Hawaii to Indonesia to the American Northeast and Midwest, Rising Star meticulously unpacks Obamas life, from his tumultuous upbringing in Honolulu and Jakarta, to his formative time as a community organizer on Chicagos 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