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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Garrow, David J., 1953-     Subjects     Obama, Barack.     United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.     Legislators, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Legislators -- United States -- Biography.     Politicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Presidents, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Presidents -- United States -- Biography.     United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.     Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography     Browse Catalog     by author:      Garrow, David J., 1953-       by title:      Rising star : the ma...       by call number:      973.932092 O12ga     Search the Web     Garrow, David J., 1953-     Obama, Barack.     United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.     Legislators, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Legislators -- United States -- Biography.     Politicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Presidents, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Presidents -- United States -- Biography.     United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.     Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography       MARC Display

Rising star : the making of Barack Obama / David J. Garrow. by Garrow, David J., 1953- William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins, 2017. Call #: 973.932092 O12ga Subjects Obama, Barack.   United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.   Legislators, Black -- United States -- Biography.   Legislators -- United States -- Biography.   Politicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.   Presidents, Black -- United States -- Biography.   Presidents -- United States -- Biography.   United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.   Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography ISBN:  9780062641830 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  viii, 1460 pages : map ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographic reference (pages 1085-1391) and index. Contents:  The end of the world as they knew it: Chicago's far South Side, March 1980 - July 1985 -- A place in the world: Honolulu, Seattle, Honolulu, Jakarta, and Honolulu, August 1961 - September 1979 -- Searching for home: Eagle Rock, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Hermitage, PA, September 1979 - July 1985 -- Transformation and identity: Roseland, Hyde Park, and Kenya: August 1985 - August 1988 -- Emergence and achievement: Harvard Law School, September 1988 - May 1991 -- Building a future: Chicago, June 1991 - August 1995 -- Into the Arena: Chicago and Springfield, September 1995 - September 1999 -- Failure and recovery: Chicago and Springfield, October 1999 - January 2003 -- Calculation, conincidence, coronation: Illinois and Boston, January 2003 - November 2004 -- Disappointment and destiny: the U.S. Senate, November 2004 - February 2007 -- Epilogue: the President did not attend, as he was golfing. Summary:  "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. David J. Garrow delivers an epic work about the life of Barack Obama, creating a rich tapestry of a life little understood, until now. 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. David J. Garrow is a professor of law and history at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law."--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Sackville Public Library Adult Biography 973.932092 O12ga Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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