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BARACK OBAMA: A Barack Obama Biography
BARACK OBAMA: A Barack Obama Biography
Barack Obama was born to a single mother and absent father in 1961. The America around him was still racially segregated and divided. Large parts of his childhood were spent in the care of his grandparents in Hawaii, his mother having left America for a new husband and job in Indonesia.
Barack Obama, despite the disadvantages that life threw at him, worked hard and eventually enrolled to study law at Harvard University. After graduating with honours he settled in Chicago where he met Michelle Robinson. Like Barack Obama she was a young lawyer who was keen to address the racial disadvantages that were still present in American society.
Following their marriage, and the arrival of two daughters, Barack Obama was elected as Illinois Senator and then as the 44th President of the United States of America. He became the first African American to hold this role. Obama used his position to push America into becoming a more equal and fairer society. Initiatives such as Obamacare and the repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell ban on gay and lesbians serving in the military had a significant impact on his country.
Following the conclusion of his second term of office Barack Obama left the White House with a 60% approval rating and regularly ranks highly in lists of America’s greatest ever presidents. Through the course of this book we will look at how his unusual childhood helped to shape the man, and the President, that he would become. We will also discuss how Obama used his time as President to try to improve life for the ordinary American. We will then, finally, look at the impact that Obama had on America and his lasting legacy.
Barack Obama was born to a single mother and absent father in 1961. The America around him was still racially segregated and divided. Large parts of his childhood were spent in the care of his grandparents in Hawaii, his mother having left America for a new husband and job in Indonesia.
Barack Obama, despite the disadvantages that life threw at him, worked hard and eventually enrolled to study law at Harvard University. After graduating with honours he settled in Chicago where he met Michelle Robinson. Like Barack Obama she was a young lawyer who was keen to address the racial disadvantages that were still present in American society.
Following their marriage, and the arrival of two daughters, Barack Obama was elected as Illinois Senator and then as the 44th President of the United States of America. He became the first African American to hold this role. Obama used his position to push America into becoming a more equal and fairer society. Initiatives such as Obamacare and the repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell ban on gay and lesbians serving in the military had a significant impact on his country.
Following the conclusion of his second term of office Barack Obama left the White House with a 60% approval rating and regularly ranks highly in lists of America’s greatest ever presidents. Through the course of this book we will look at how his unusual childhood helped to shape the man, and the President, that he would become. We will also discuss how Obama used his time as President to try to improve life for the ordinary American. We will then, finally, look at the impact that Obama had on America and his lasting legacy.
50 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 8, 2018
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Michael Woodford
75 books4 followersMichael Woodford grew up in Liverpool, and worked for Olympus for 30 years, becoming CEO on October 1st 2011. He is 51 years of age, married to Nuncy, a Spanish national, and they have two children, Edward 18 and Isabel 16. He is a keen runner and enjoys sailing.
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February 16, 2021
This book was given as a gift . They thought they were buying Promised Land (didn’t know the title, only that it was Barack Obama’s name on the cover).
This was a rushed and unorganized attempt to recall
Obama’s life. More of a listing of information on the internet.
This was a rushed and unorganized attempt to recall
Obama’s life. More of a listing of information on the internet.
February 10, 2019
Barack Obama Bio
Very informative information about the president . He worked hard to be a voice for people who otherwise might not have had a voice.
Very informative information about the president . He worked hard to be a voice for people who otherwise might not have had a voice.
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