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Author:

Garrow, David J., 1953- author.

Title:

Rising star : the making of Barack Obama / David J. Garrow.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

William Morrowan imprint of Harper Collins Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

1460 pages : map ; 25 cm

Subject:

Obama, Barack.
United States.--Senate--Senate--Biography.
Legislators--United States--Biography.
African American politicians--Biography.
Presidents--United States--Biography.
United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical reference (pages 1085-1391) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780008229405
0008229406
0062641832
9780062641830

OCLC:

(OCoLC)957241956

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