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Barack Obama: Our Forty-Fourth President
I liked this book because it had many facts and the author tried to describe all the parts of his life like they were all very significant. However, it just continued on and on about his life and there wasn’t much interesting things. That is one of the reason some Nonfiction books are never appealing to me.
I would recommend this book to people who like to read informative books with a lot of facts and knowledge. This book is a great learning tool for people who want to increase their knowledge. If you liked this book, I would recommend you to read more Nonfiction books by Beatrice Gormley.
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama (Paperback)
“If you care about American politics, you have to read The Bridge.” –Salon
"Superb. . . . Remnick is a master blender of history, reporting and narrative.” —TheSeattle Times
“Insight[ful] and nuance[d]. . . .Writing with emotional precision and a sure knowledge of politics, Mr. Remnick situates Mr. Obama’s career firmly within a historical context.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“There are a few people of such skill that envy gives way to admiration, and one is left feeling not hostility but respect. Remnick is one of those exceptional practitioners.”–Newsweek
“His work will serve as a building block for all future works on Obama. . . .Lovely and assured.” –Entertainment Weekly
“Engaging. . . .Sparkling.” –San Francisco Chronicle
“An expansive work. . . .Recounting a pivotal March 2007 speech in Selma, Remnick writes that Obama’s words were ‘at once personal, tribal, national and universal.’ The same can be said of The Bridge.” –Time
“An insightful, nuanced look at the making of the 44th president, placing his career in the context of history.” –The Chicago Tribune
“Absorbing and seminal. . . .Remnick is the most gifted and versatile journalist in America. . . .The Bridgeis the first truly great biography of the man in all his promise and complexities.” –San Antonio Express-News
“Remnick deserves credit for telling Obama’s story more completely than others, for lending a reporter’s zeal to the task, for not ducking the discussion of race and for peeling back several layers of the onion t
Barack Obama: A Pocket Biography of Our 44th President
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While the beaches of Honolulu were more than just five thousand miles away from the back roads of the Mississippi Delta or the shotgun shacks of the Carolinas, the young Barack Obama was not untouched by the dramatic changes wrought by the black freedom struggles, both in America and elsewhere. Indeed, his very existence was to some degree a consequence of those struggles. His father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., grew up in the small village of Nyangoma-Kogelo in western Kenya, and as a child, herded goats with his father, Hussein Onyango Obama, a domestic servant for British colonial officials. As Barack Obama Jr. would later put it, his grandfather Hussein "had larger dreams for his son," who, first, won a scholarship to study in the capital, Nairobi, and then was selected to participate in a program to educate promising young African students in the United States. The program's founder, the Kenyan nationalist politician and labor leader, Tom Mboya wanted to prepare an African-born elite for government service after the end of British colonial rule, and he looked to America, rather than Britain to do so. To that end, Mboya secured scholarship funds from such civil rights movement stalwarts as Jackie Robinson, Harry Belafonte, and Sidney Poitier. Martin Luther King Jr. and other Montgomery ministers who believed that Africans and African Americans shared a common struggle against colonialism and racism helped fund five of the Kenyan students. (In speeches, Barack Obama has mistakenly credited the family of John F. Kennedy for sponsoring the program that brought his father to America; the Kennedys did provide $100,000 to Mboya's program, but only after Obama Sr. was already in Hawaii. Other Kenyan students were, however, assisted by the Mboya-Kennedy program, including Africa's first female Nobel Peace Prize winner, the environmentalist Wangari Maa .