Barack Obama : the making of the man. / David Maraniss.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:New York : Simon and Schuster, 2012الطبعات:1st Simon & Schuster hardcover edوصف:xxiii, 643 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1848872801 (pbk)
- 9781848872806 (pbk)
- E908 M368 2012
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | E908 M368 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010011082334 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | E908 M368 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010011082333 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-609) and index.
"In Barack Obama, David Maraniss has written a sweeping narrative which reveals the real story of Obama's beginnings: child of a black man from Luoland and a white woman born in Kansas. He charts the fortunes of the two disparate families, polar opposites in every way, which produced these two extraordinary individuals, who met briefly in Hawaii, never cohabited, and married only to legitimize the child born of that union. At the heart of Obama's psyche and his political beliefs -- and therefore his presidency -- is his life-long struggle to understand the extreme duality of his identity. Maraniss explores his extraordinary journey from a mixed race boy raised by white grandparents in laid-back Hawaii to an African America with a burning political vision and vocation. Barack Obama contains a wealth of new material. Maraniss reveals here previously unpublished love letters written by Obama as a young man in a search of an identity: black or white, writer or a man who could lead. He also includes the journal entries of Obama's first significant (white) girlfriend, which chart their intense relationship and the moment when young Barack realized that he must leave everything behind him and set out for Chicago in order to 'become' an African American. The story wrought here is one of fierce ambition, survival, and love"--Provided by publisher.