Rising star: the making of Barack Obama
(Book)
As epic in vision and rigorous in detail as Robert Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson series, 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. 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 later he would make history as America’s first black president. Now, at the end of his second presidential term, David J. Garrow delivers the most compelling and comprehensive biography ever written of Obama in the years preceding his presidency. Moving around the globe, from Hawaii to Indonesia to the American Northeast and Midwest, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama meticulously unpacks Obama’s life, from his tumultuous upbringing in Honolulu and Jakarta, to his formative time as a community organizer on Chicago’s 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 reveals as never before the ambition, the dreams, and the all-too-human struggles of an iconic president in a sure to be news-making biography that will stand as the most authoritative account of Obama’s pre-presidential life for decades to come. -- Publisher
Garrow, D. (2017). Rising star: the making of Barack Obama. First Edition. New York, NY, William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Garrow, David. 2017. Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. New York, NY, William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Garrow, David, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. New York, NY, William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Garrow, David. Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. First Edition. New York, NY, William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 2017.
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505 | 0 | |a The end of the world as they knew it: Chicago's far South Side, March 1980 - July 1985 -- A place in the world: Honolulu, Seattle, Honolulu, Jakarta, and Honolulu, August 1961 - September 1979 -- Searching for home: Eagle Rock, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Hermitage, PA, September 1979 - July 1985 -- Transformation and identity: Roseland, Hyde Park, and Kenya: August 1985 - August 1988 -- Emergence and achievement: Harvard Law School, September 1988 - May 1991 -- Building a future: Chicago, June 1991 - August 1995 -- Into the Arena: Chicago and Springfield, September 1995 - September 1999 -- Failure and recovery: Chicago and Springfield, October 1999 - January 2003 -- Calculation, coincidence, coronation: Illinois and Boston, January 2003 - November 2004 -- Disappointment and destiny: the U.S. Senate, November 2004 - February 2007 -- Epilogue: the President did not attend, as he was golfing. | |
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