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  <name><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America.  He is the first African-American President to be elected President of the United States, and was the first to be nominated for President by a major U.S. political party. He was the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois from 2005 until he resigned on November 16, 2008, following his election to the Presidency.

Barack Obama is the son of Barack Obama, Sr. and Ann Dunham. He graduated from Columbia University in 1983, and moved to Chicago in 1985 to work for a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment. In 1991, Obama graduated from Harvard Law School where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. In addition to his work as a community organizer, Obama practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. 

During his eight years in the Illinois state Senate, Obama worked with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. Obama also pushed through an expansion of early childhood education, and after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama enlisted the support of law enforcement officials to draft legislation requiring the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel.

Obama is especially proud of being a husband and father of two daughters, Malia and Sasha. Obama and his wife, Michelle, married in 1992 and have a home in Chicago’s South Side.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Honolulu, Hawaii</hometown>  <born_at>08/04/1961</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Dreams from My Father]]></title>
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  <published>1995</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Inaugural Address, 2009: Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and The Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[President-Elect Barack Obama's Victory Speech]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[INSPIRE A NATION: Barack Obama's Electrifying Speeches Of the 2008 Democratic Primary]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.50</average_rating>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE #1 - McCain v. Obama - FULL UNEDITED TRANSCRIPT - Uni of Mississippi - Sep 26 2008]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[John McCain]]></name>
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  <ratings_count>10</ratings_count>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Essential Barack Obama: The Grammy Award-Winning Recordings]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Barack Obama: What He Believes In - From His Own Works]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></name>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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        <book id="5429523">
  <title><![CDATA[In His Own Words: BARACK OBAMA - THE AMERICAN PROMISE: 500+ pages. The Speeches 2007 + 2008]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></name>
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