Barack Obama by David Maraniss - ISBN: 9781439160411
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Obama’s life: a sweeping family saga shaping a historic presidency.

Barack Obama

The Story

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    672 pages

  • Release Date

    15 January 2013

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Summary

The groundbreaking multigenerational biography, a richly textured account of President Obama and the forces that shaped him and sustain him, from Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, political commentator, and acclaimed biographer David Maraniss.

In Barack Obama: The Story, David Maraniss has written a deeply reported generational biography teeming with fresh insights and revealing information, a masterly narrative drawn from hundreds of interviews, including with President Obama…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781439160411
ISBN-10:1439160414
Author:David Maraniss
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Imprint:Simon & Schuster
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:672
Release Date:15 January 2013
Weight:748g
Dimensions:234mm x 155mm x 33mm
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Critics Review

“This is a revelatory book … which will certainly shape our understanding of President Obama’s strengths, weaknesses and inscrutabilities. Every few pages Maraniss offers a factual nugget that changes or enlarges the prevailing lore.”

About The Author

David Maraniss

David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, and a trilogy about the 1960s–Rome 1960; Once in a Great City (winner of the RFK Book Prize); and They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History).

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