000			01951nam a2200205 a 4500
001			ASIN1848872798
005			20170105102906.0
008			131024s2012 xxu eng d
020			_a1848872798 (hardcover) _c$56.25
020			_a9781848872790 (hardcover)
040			_aa
082			_a973.932092 _bMAR 2012
100	1		_aMaraniss, David.
245	1	0	_aBarack obama : _bthe making of man / _cDavid Maraniss.
260			_a[S.l.] : _bAtlantic, _c2012.
300			_a656 p. ; _c24 cm.
520			_aIn 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 Texas. 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 Maraniss reveals here previously unpublished love letters written by Obama as a young man in a search of an identity: black or white, writer or a man who could lead.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.
856	4	0	_3Amazon.com _uhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1848872798/chopaconline-20
942			_2ddc _cBK
999			_c14893 _d14893