Rising Star

Book Review by Kam Williams
Rising
Star
The
Making of Barack Obama
by
David J. Garrow
William
Morrow
Hardcover,
$45.00
1472
pages
ISBN:
978-0-06-264183-0
“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...
In Rising Star, 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."
-- Excerpted from the
Bookjacket
“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...
In Rising Star, 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."
-- Excerpted from the
Bookjacket
Now,
another Pulitzer Prize-winner, David J. Garrow, has published an epic
opus of 1,472 pages on the life of Barack Obama, focusing
on the years prior to the presidency.
And it's a safe bet that Garrow just might eventually write a sequel
about about POTUS 44's time in the White House, too.
Any
Obama fan is likely to find this in-depth portrait fascinating, as it
is filled with plenty of little-known factoids and anecdotes about
him. For example, it chronicles a childhood spent mostly on Hawaii
where he was basically raised by his maternal grandparents in the
absence of both his mother and father.
Garrow
also documents "Barry's" use of marijuana in high school
and of cocaine in college, when he started preferring "Barack."
And the author reveals the identity of the woman Obama lived with for
a couple of years during his stint in Chicago as a grassroots
organizer.
We
also learn that Obama not only worked with a lot of Bible-thumping
sisters during his initial stint in the Windy City, but that he was
already planning to become president of the United States way back
then. And there's the blow-by-blow of his strained relationship with
Genevieve Cook, the rudderless white woman he dated during his tenure
in New York City.
Everything
you always wanted to know about Barack Obama but were afraid to ask,
and then some!
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