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Barack Obama: The Story

by David Maraniss (Goodreads Author)

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From the author of First In His Class, the definitive biography of Bill Clinton, and When Pride Still Mattered, the bestselling biography of Vince Lombardi, and They Marched Into Sunlight, the classic saga of the Vietnam era—a stunning new multigenerational biography of Barack Obama.In a groundbreaking work based on hundreds of interviews,including with President Obama,and...more

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Jul 18, 2012 Darlene rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This biography of President Barack Obama by David Maraniss is incredibly well- researched and is presented without bias. Having read Dreams From my Father and The Audacity of Hope written by President Obama, I already possessed knowledge of his personal story and what influenced and shaped his belief system. This book, however, took me on an incredible journey starting a couple of generations before President Obama's birth in Hawaii. Mr. Maraniss traveled to Kansas, Kenya, Indonesia and Hawaii t...more

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Nov 06, 2012 Linda rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I am about halfway into the book but find it fascinating. It is SO detailed starting with the background of both grandparents on both sides of the family and the family of the 2nd husband his mother married from Indonesia. Despite all the myths, Barack Obama's father was not a Muslim but an atheist. Barack's (Barry as a child) mother had the strongest influence on shaping his spiritual and ethical grounding. This is a a very good read and can hardly put it down... still reading and to be continu...more

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Jul 23, 2012 Susan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was excerpted in Vanity Fair, which focused on his relationships before he went to Harvard Law. But that's only one small part of this epic story of his parents' and grandparents' experiences. It's a sad story on both sides, which makes the President's incredible success all the more remarkable. I was so touched by the events in this book that I made another donation to his campaign!

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Jan 20, 2013 Seth Kolloen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I quite enjoyed this broad scope look at the forces that shaped Barack Obama's life, going all the way back to his great-grandparents. Maraniss did some amazing research for the fascinating story that stretches from Kansas to Kenya. In the course of reading this book, I found out that a good friend's father was Obama's mom's landlord! Craziness...there are so many names and dates and places it wouldn't surprise me if everyone in America would lessen their degrees of separation from Obama by read...more

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Oct 13, 2012 Bobbettylou rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Wow, what a book! Exhaustive, at times exhausting, yet hard-to-put-down. Everything you ever wanted to know about our 44th president from four generations before his birth to his inauguration. In 641 pages of prose.

One wonders and marvels at how Maraniss uncovered and organized all the information. It must have been several years, at least, of unrelenting work to interview the hundreds of people who make up the story, including the main caracter himself in an oval office interview(s). All of tha...more

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Sep 07, 2012 Lori rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

David Maraniss is a journalist who thoroughly researches every word he prints. He in past has written about Clinton and it is not stretch to assume his loyalties lie with the Democrats. But Maraniss is fair and I've never found a lie in anything Maraniss has ever written.
This book sheds light on the formative years of Obama. This book also sheds light on many "misrepresentations" that Obama has written about himself in his "Dreams from my Father" book. Maraniss gives details to make clear what a...more
David Maraniss is a journalist who thoroughly researches every word he prints. He in past has written about Clinton and it is not stretch to assume his loyalties lie with the Democrats. But Maraniss is fair and I've never found a lie in anything Maraniss has ever written.
This book sheds light on the formative years of Obama. This book also sheds light on many "misrepresentations" that Obama has written about himself in his "Dreams from my Father" book. Maraniss gives details to make clear what are the facts.
The first about 7 discs dwells his family history in Kenya and in US.
A few myths are dispelled here: Someone did remember a mention about "Stanley" giving birth in Hawaii. Stanley was Obama's mothers middle name.
Baby Obama was swept off to by his mother to US mainland when he was barely one month old and they never lived as a “family” with Barack Obama Senior again. Apparently this is not the story that has been told before.
Barack senior was a violent man with another wife and 2 kids back in Kenya, so there was no reason he would have taken Stanley Ann back to Kenya to give birth.
Obama grew up in Indonesia where his mother worked and did research. He always went to the finest schools that his mother & grandmother could get him into.
He was sent to Hawaii in his adolescent years & attended private school there and lived with his grandparents. His grandfather sought out a Black man for Obama to associate with since there were few Blacks in Obama's childhood experience.
There are many things people would be surprised to read.
The extent of his pot & cigarette smoking are legion.
So many things Obama did that seem calculated towards a Political goal, such as joining Jeremiah Wright's church. Obama doesn't come across as having strong religious beliefs in anything. He seemed to have joined to find the African-American experience that he was not raised in at all to give him credibility in that community. There are no instances of unpaid altruism on his part, he was paid for his community organizing and the works associated with it.
Also his distain for Business come thru in his comments when he worked briefly for Business International Corp, that he was "working for the enemy"
Maraniss explained that Obama's job at Business International was as a low-level researcher, not as Obama had described.
Obama also criticized his mother for working from a grant funded by the Ford Foundation.
This is summary, and albeit not a thorough or very good one.
This book is very interesting in that most of Obama’s background was not known before; certainly not the facts that Maraniss points out.
The biggest disappointment of the book is that he doesn't go into Obama's actual political career but the lead up to it.
This audio Books is 20 CDs long and Maraniss narrates and is easy to listen too although his voice can put one to sleep.
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Sep 06, 2012 Nita rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I thought this would be a biography of President Obama, and in a way it was, but it was more a biography of the people instrumental in making him who he is. This book was a little hard for me to read; I wish I had had the time to really settle into it. It had a lot of pretty dry narrative (much of which, I regret to say,I skimmed over) interspersed with (MUCH more interesting!)first person stories of Obama's family and upbringing. Actually, the man who becomes our President doesn't become a majo...more

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Jul 26, 2012 Jerry rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: biography

This is an interesting and fairly even-handed account of the family background and early life of Barack Obama. It has more about the ancestors than about Barack Obama II. And I was disappointed that the book ends before Obama entered Harvard Law School, thus omitting some of the interesting Chicago political background. This leaves us with Edward Klein’s book The Amateur to fill in the later years.

The main thread of the book is Obama’s struggle to establish his own identity. It reaches far in h...more

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Jul 17, 2012 Barbara added it · review of another edition

If you want to understand where Barack Obama might be coming from read this unauthorized biography by David Maraniss. The author has good credentials. He won a Pulitzer prize for a series of stories he wrote about Clinton, and works at the Washington Post.

If you don’t like detailed histories, this book is not for you. The author gives you plenty of history. (Maybe, more than you want or need to know.)

President Obama’s Family History

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Apr 22, 2013 Corey Preston rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A lot of things to be frustrated with here, including (in order of escalating frustration):
(a) absence of PBO for more than half the book--way too much focus on individuals who had no impact on his life whatsoever;
cutting off just when things start to get interesting (pre-law school);
(b) constantly rehashing and hammering the same, simple thesis (PBO has always been cautiously bold--excuse my french, but no shit...);
and (c) constantly "fact checking" PBO's prior biographies--there are a few...more

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Aug 06, 2012 Lit Folio rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a substantive, well-researched and extensive exploration of the man who has become our current President. What made him, through the influences of both his African and American roots is fascinating reading. I thoroughly enjoyed the broad and vast exploration of the grandparents who ended up having so much to do with shaping Barack's disciplined character. And what's impressive here are the women. The grandmother, Madelyn, and mother, Stanley, were the real force behind any strengths this...more

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Aug 13, 2012 Toni rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was okay, but disappointing. David Maraniss digs up some interesting / juicy stuff, especially on Obama's New York years. But he also spends waaaayyyy too long on Obama's genealogy, which (beyond maybe his parents) I, for one, could care less about. More annoying still was this tick he has of dwelling far too long on the little coincidences, chance encounters, and twists of fate that color all of our lives, Obama being no exception. As a former history major, I found this sort of chaos theo...more

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Oct 11, 2012 Jim rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: biography-and-memoir, chicago, expatriates, non-fiction

David Maraniss is one of those people who reminds his readers of what good journalism looks like. He's also one of the better biographers working today. In this book, Maraniss has produced a solid, informative account of the events that shaped the character of Barack Obama. Overall, this is a critical but positive assessment of Obama's youth. While some of the more irresponsible pundits have combed the book for out-of-context "gotcha" nuggets, anyone who actually reads this book will quickly see...more

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Jan 10, 2013 Catherine Woodman rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Well, this book is massive in scope. Maraniss has writtena global, multigenerational saga that spans decades and ends right before Obama goes off to Harvard Law School—but in the end, I am not sure that it culminates in the emergence of a young man who is knowable, recognizable and real. Recognizable and perhaps more real, but I am not sure how much more knowable he really is at the end of the day.
The book goes back to his great grandparents on both sides, and ironically, there are almost more p...more Well, this book is massive in scope. Maraniss has writtena global, multigenerational saga that spans decades and ends right before Obama goes off to Harvard Law School—but in the end, I am not sure that it culminates in the emergence of a young man who is knowable, recognizable and real. Recognizable and perhaps more real, but I am not sure how much more knowable he really is at the end of the day.
The book goes back to his great grandparents on both sides, and ironically, there are almost more pictures from the era that ended before Obama’s birth than there are from his growing up experiences. What we do figure out pretty quickly is that he was not lucky in his parentage. His father was all sorts of things that the son is not. Obama the senior was brash, arrogant, a heavy drinker, a womanizer, an abuser, and someone who burned out rather quickly when things did not go exactly his way. He saw himself as the smartest man in the world and woe those who failed to grasp that—Obama the younger’s real luck in his father was that his mother cut ties with him early enough that there was not much in the way of damage done. His father bestowed his talented genes upon the son and high tailed it out of Hawaii. The story with his mother was almost as sad—she did not really focus on her son in many ways. He lived briefly in Indonesia with her when she remarried, but the fact that he didn’t quite fit in there meant that he went back to Hawaii to live with her parents. They were good parent figures for him and he got a quality education there, on an island that was more multi-cultural than most of the United States at the time—but those cultures didn’t include his, and that served to further isolate him.
Our 44th President comes across as smart, hard working, and not attention-seeking—his drive to enter politics was very different from his father’s. He was not seeking the center of attention. He wanted to solve problems. The comparisons of his demeanor during his student days to Bill Clinton’s are very telling of who they became, and why they are not friends. Their skill sets are entirely different as well—and Clinton is undeniably the better politician but Obama is the guy you would want to discuss the book you just read with. Obama also seemed like better boyfriend material. By the end of the book, I could see the struggles that Obama faced in his family of origin, and why he might appear to be more withholding and aloof—but otherwise, it left more questions than it answered for me.
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Sep 02, 2012 Stan Lanier rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was an awful lot of work for less than expected payback. Maraniss certainly can write educated and attractive sentences. I had some difficulty understanding the conceptuality controlling his narrative. Perhaps the MASS of detail was supposed to verify Maraniss's conclusions about President Obama's psychological make-up. Too often, however, I found myself wondering when would a chapter end, and I had to make a conscious decision to finish the book. In the end, I cannot say that Maraniss offe...more

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Oct 28, 2012 Mlg rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction

Very readable book about the childhood and young adulthood of our current president. The genealogical information at the beginning is okay, it went on a bit too long. Obama's life was certainly not an easy one. His biological father had little relationship with his mother, never supported him and saw him only once. His mother was a good person, who had horrible taste in men and who basically abandoned her son seeking a career in Indonesia. Both Obama Sr. and her Indonesian husband were abusive....more

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Jul 14, 2012 Paul Leegard rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

When I was reading it I thought it was too detailed and too much about his ancestors. Then about aa week of thinking about the book it was weird. It was weird because I started thinking about how my parents and grandparents lives have influenced me. How the people I have met over the years have changed my life. I thought how often what I think is true influences me more than what may actually true. SO I would recomment this book but with the qualification that one should think about all of the i...more

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Jul 03, 2012 Liz rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

David Maraniss offers the results of his exhaustive research on Barack Obama's background and weaves a story that is all the more riveting since we know this is about a man who makes presidential history. The book goes back a hundred years into Obama's father and mother's history. It is nothing short of fascinating except in some places like a detailed description of combat service in the world wars. I was most interested in Obama's story when he reached Occidental College, transferred to Columb...more

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Jan 27, 2013 Megan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If you ever wondered the three or so possible ways the young Barak Obama walked from his shabby apartment to Columbia U, this is the book for you! Actually, it's really thought-provoking, and it made his second inauguration, so much more subdued yet no less momentous than his first, hit me at a deeper level. The sight of Obama deliberately stopping to look out at the view of the Mall: that said a lot about him, and having read Maraniss's book let me understand that poignant moment even more. The...more

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Oct 22, 2012 Michael rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: biography-memoir, politics, non-fiction

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Perhaps no American’s racial identity has been parsed so publically and in such great depth as Barack Obama’s. We forget, in the heat of the current election and Mitt Romney’s inscrutability, that the major stumbling point for Obama’s primary campaign against a well-known and well-defined Hilary Clinton, and then against the ubiquitous curmudgeon John McCain, was his lack of public identity. Anyone who read his 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father, which by t...more

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Dec 21, 2012 David Tracey rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

We may never run out of new books explaining Barrack Obama. Or rather attempting to. This one gets full marks for research, even if too many of the facts end up on the page. The level of detail may be exhausting for some readers, particularly when delving into the lives of people such as grandparents. The meticulous approach is more welcomed for periods of Obama's life that seem more likely to reveal psychological information, such as his school years in Hawaii. But maybe because it ends before...more

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Nov 05, 2012 Rike rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Finally! I finished all 571 pages of this dull book. But at least I cannot say I haven't been warned. On page 19 of the introduction the author mentions that Barack Obama himself will not appear until the 7th of the 18 chapters of the book. Although family history might give clues about a persons character, I doubt that the psychoanalysis of the great-grandparents will get the reader that far in getting to know the one person he is actually interested in.

Talking about psychoanalysis: The author...more Finally! I finished all 571 pages of this dull book. But at least I cannot say I haven't been warned. On page 19 of the introduction the author mentions that Barack Obama himself will not appear until the 7th of the 18 chapters of the book. Although family history might give clues about a persons character, I doubt that the psychoanalysis of the great-grandparents will get the reader that far in getting to know the one person he is actually interested in.

Talking about psychoanalysis: The author never stops to give unwarranted interpretations of Obama's inner feelings. It starts with the authoritative announcement in the introduction that Obama's story is a continuous quest to "avoid traps", and continues with statements like "What he did, he did not because of the reasons he thought, but actually because..." Even if this comes close - I do not appreciate presumptious speculation about other peoples' inner workings nor do I like some author's conclusions rubbed into my face. There is definitely not a lack of hard facts for the reader to draw conclusions from, if that is what the author had worried about.

And eventually, worst of all: The bickering about facts and fiction in Obama's autobiography. Even if characters are "compressed", events mentioned out of chronological order or even entirely constructed - so what! I understand that as a historian with a different approach, facts are what matters, but the author could have spared the reader the "aha! I discovered a discrepancy!" momentum.

So why two stars nevertheless? First, despite all the boredom it caused me, it is a well-researched work of biographical history. Hats off to the author who must have put a lot of work into the book! Secondly, the main character is a hell of an interesting guy. Somehow he is not quite visible himself behind all the interpretation... But after getting to know him from afar, from the outside, you really feel you want to get to know him in his own words. Oh hey - and there's actually this book you could read to do so. It's called Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance and is said to be quite the bestseller. ;)(less)

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Jul 04, 2012 Patricia rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A very detailed look at Barack Obama and his grandparents, parents and extended family that takes his story to just before he enters Harvard Law School at age 27. Obviously a lot of research was done and many interesting little stories were told. I was a bit uncomfortable with some of the personal revelations of people interviewed for the book, for example an extensive selection of excerpts from personal letters written from a girlfriend. Maraniss spends a lot of time speculating and proving/dis...more

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Jan 05, 2013 Mmiller400m rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: presidents

I'm trying to read a biography of each president going backwards starting with President Obama. I think I should have picked a different book because this never reached any of his political life or decisions. I'm amazed by Obama and will most likely read something else about him as well. Going into it just know that this will be largely about his family history and he won't even enter the story until about 100 pages in or so. The book takes you through his early life and into his college years....more

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Feb 13, 2013 Cathy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm surprised that this book of 571 pages was engaging, revealing and interesting. I've read several books about Obama, Game Change, A Singular Woman, Dreams from..., and The Bridge, but this book held my attention because, I think, of its attention to detail and research.

Obama's African ancestors and the history of the name obama was intriguing. It means bent "...and also connotes curved spine..which was likely the origin of these Obamas." The story about Onyango(obama's grandfather)kept me tu...more I'm surprised that this book of 571 pages was engaging, revealing and interesting. I've read several books about Obama, Game Change, A Singular Woman, Dreams from..., and The Bridge, but this book held my attention because, I think, of its attention to detail and research.

Obama's African ancestors and the history of the name obama was intriguing. It means bent "...and also connotes curved spine..which was likely the origin of these Obamas." The story about Onyango(obama's grandfather)kept me turning pages. He was a wiley old coot who preferred to be called by his Islamic name Hussein but really didn't practice islam at all. The domestic violence and numerous wives who bore no children until Akumu (his fourth) who was mother of the president's father. She fled Hussein because of his brutallity leaving her three young children behind. The practice of polygamy was a Luo tribe (from whence our pres is descended) tradition.

Barack's father was already married with two children when he left Kenya for Hawaii. Then he married Ann in Hawaii, then Ruth (another american who moved to Kenya)and finally another woman who was his wife when he died in a single car accident. He was abusive to all his wives. There's no evidence that he was violent with the president's mother but the probability is high that he was. He was a self destructive alchoholic and brilliant as well. His life was filled with frustation, braggadacio and violence. He was 46 when he died and I wonder how the president handeled the reality of his father that he discovered in his late 20s. His american family painted obama sr as a heroic figure when in fact his father was a failure, for complicated reasons, but a failure none the less.

David Maraniss has an easy fluid style that engages the reader in this complicated story that sometimes get mired in detail. His descriptions draw the reader into the countryside "...he followed a ridgeline above the historic Rift valley with its breathtaking morning vista of villages and pastures that seem to be floating on the plans below..." and "...Before Barry left for the post graduation party...and before he rode the bus back... for the middle of the night breakfast...and before he took one last walk from the Dole cafeteria...and before he escaped...to Lakapu beach..., before all that, Barry posed for photographs with Tut and Gramps and Ann and Maya. All smiles, one lei atop another... a family reunited."

The Dunham saga is just as interesting as the Luoland (obama) story. Stanley Dunham (Obama's american grandfather) was left motherless when he was a little boy, after his mother killed herself because, it was whispered, Stanley's father was abusive. After her death, Stanley and his brother were sent to live with grandparents just like Barry would be (but for different reasons).

Maraniss links similiarities between these two families who lived on opposite ends of the world and suggests that maybe their behavior was somehow hard coded. "These two unlikely stories ...conected and created a third and different story that ...wended toward an even unlikelier place, the White House." It is also clear that our current president broke the cycle of behavior so prevelent on both sides, the wandering, the searching for el dorado, lack of family life. Our president found his el dorado and his family is the center of his life.

I also liked the snippets from the president's journals and letters. "I can't mobilize my thoughts right now so I paraphrase Nietzche...I leave you to piece together this jumble" he writes to a friend and then ends with "Since I began writing this postscript, snow has covered the earth and filled the air, the city disappearing like a dream."

Maraniss also repeated facts and relationships throughout the book which helped me to remember who was who in this complicated story of family and relationships. One has to wonder, though, if Maraniss is practicing pop phsychology or gathering data to prove his original premise. Barack Obama's people were drawn to similiar personality types and if Obama hadn't been so analytical and stand offish (bi-racial outsiderness) he might have ended up the same way they did.(less)

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Sep 16, 2012 Julie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I admit it - I'm an Obama supporter. But I'm also a bit disappointed in the perception that he doesn't get in there and fight for what needs to get done. I do think he has a strong track record for his first term but there are a few things I wish he would do differently. So, when I read a review for this biography I thought that it might give me some insight into why he does things how he does them. And this book, did indeed, shed some light on his quiet nature. What an interesting story his lif...more

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Aug 22, 2012 Jay rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Barack Obama, The Story by David Maraniss parallels and includes many clarifying details not central to Obama's purpose in writing Dreams from My Father. Obama's earlier book was written in part to help him understand the fate of his birth, and gain a meaningful focus for his life. Obama's earlier book altered life events and summarized the actions of others to create a unified narrative and protect the identity of his personal associations. Although Maraniss periodically refers to Obama’s memoi...more

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Aug 19, 2012 Jack rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Has David Maraniss ever met a detail he didn't include in a book? The book is thoroughly researched, but it seems to me that it's an important part of the writer's (and editor's) job to decide what's important to include and not include. Names of classmates of the President's grandparents who never play any further part in the story don't add flavor or interest or information and could easily have been deleted, making the book much more readable. That being said, there's a lot of interesting, ne...more

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Aug 08, 2012 Lori rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

So far I find it fascinating how often this book, written by a Washington Post reporter, proves that the book by Obama himself is exaggerated and false at times. I've laughed out loud at times with the inconsistencies. Since this reporter has done the research himself and talked to those who were close to Obama, you would hope their stories would be the same, but alas they are not. One example is when the reporter spoke to the coach and members of his high school basketball team. Obama claimed t...more

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Mar 03, 2013 Dayla rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: biography-or-autobriography

I loved this book, especially since I was in Europe at the time I was reading it. I loved learning about Obama's mother the most. One has to admire her oh so much. She looked like a train wreck all the time, but her knowledge passeth all understanding. And bravo that she had sex for the first time with a Kenyan student also enrolled in her Russian language class. Otherwise, McCain might be serving out his second term right now, and have you seen that guy lately? More details on Syria, dude? Enou...more

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