06624cam a2200445 4500 293839428 TxAuBib 20170525120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062641854 0062641859 B01KFBO82E Amazon 43cd5e1c-ee8a-4e52-b159-b65053df604d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2911322 OverDrive (Product ID) 2911322 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Garrow, David. Rising Star [Libby] : The Making of Barack Obama. HarperCollins, 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2707kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 2707kB. Biography & Autobiography. Politics. Nonfiction. "Revealing. ... Probing. ... [Garrow] tells us how Obama lived, and explores the calculations he made in the decades leading up to his winning the presidency.". Washington Post. "Impressive. ... [A] deeply reported work of biography. ... The depth of detail allows the reader to see familiar parts of this story with fresh eyes.". New York Times Book Review. "The authoritative biography of Barack Obama's prepresidential years. ... Illuminating. ... Impressively researched. ... Readers will be richly rewarded.". HTML:Library Journal (starred review). "A convincing and exceptionally detailed portrait. ... Political history buffs will be fascinated.". HTML:Publishers Weekly (starred review). "Garrow is a demon for research. ... Eminently solid. ... Consistently readable — an impressive work.". Kirkus Reviews. "Gripping. ... [A] compelling read [that] should appeal to political junkies and insiders. ... Foundational.". Washington Independent Review of Books. HTML:Starred review from March 27, 2017 In this epic-length biography, Garrow (Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference) recounts Barack Obama’s intensely political life story up to his 2008 election to the presidency, and does so without apparent political bias. Every fact, however small, is documented in the footnotes, which run to hundreds of pages. The result is a convincing and exceptionally detailed portrait of one man’s self-invention. Garrow opens with a powerfully affecting episode: the March 1980 closure of a Wisconsin Steel plant on Chicago’s South Side, where Obama later spent formative years as a community organizer. Going back to his story’s beginnings, Garrow reports extensively about Obama’s father, a Kenyan-born Harvard graduate student who’s described as brilliant but also alcoholic and abusive toward women, and Obama’s childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia. The book then explores Obama’s early romantic attachments, marriage to Michelle Robinson, involvement in polarizing and personally relevant issues of race, and political career, from state senator in Illinois to U.S. senator in Washington, where he’s immediately identified as a likely Presidential candidate. Garrow also takes care to clarify instances when Obama’s personal recollections or published memoirs differed from historical records or his associates’ memories. Casual readers may well find the level of detail here overpowering, but political history buffs will be fascinated.. Publisher's Weekly. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Rising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the Cross Barack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catapulted him into the national spotlight and led to his election four years later as America's first African-American president. In this penetrating biography, David J. Garrow delivers an epic work about the life of Barack Obama, creating a rich tapestry of a life little understood, until now. Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama captivatingly describes Barack Obama's tumultuous upbringing as a young black man attending an almost-all-white, elite private school in Honolulu while being raised almost exclusively by his white grandparents. After recounting Obama's college years in California and New York, Garrow charts Obama's time as a Chicago community organizer, working in some of the city's roughest neighborhoods; his years at the top of his Harvard Law School class; and his return to Chicago, where Obama honed his skills as a hard-knuckled politician, first in the state legislature and then as a candidate for the United States Senate. Detailing a scintillating, behind-the-scenes account of Obama's 2004 speech, a moment that labeled him the Democratic Party's "rising star," Garrow also chronicles Obama's four years in the Senate, weighing his stands on various issues against positions he had taken years earlier, and recounts his thrilling run for the White House in 2008. In Rising Star, David J. Garrow has created a vivid portrait that reveals not only the people and forces that shaped the future president but also the ways in which he used those influences to serve his larger aspirations. This is a gripping read about a young man born into uncommon family circumstances, whose faith in his own talents came face-to-face with fantastic ambitions and a desire to do good in the world. Most important, Rising Star is an extraordinary work of biography—tremendous in its research and storytelling, and brilliant in its analysis of the all-too-human struggles of one of the most fascinating politicians of our time.. 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