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Barack Obama's father was born and raised in Kenya, and came to America to attend college. Obama's mother was born in Kansas but moved to Hawaii, where she, too, was attending school. Stanley Ann Dunham fell in love with Barack Hussein Obama Sr., and they were married. While young Obama never really knew his father (when [Barry] was two years old, Barack Sr. left his family and Ann divorced him shortly afterward), he knew he had family in Kenya. He also had a stepfather from Indonesia, where Barry and his mother lived for a few years and where Obama's half-sister was born. From Hawaii to Jakarta, back to Hawaii, to California, New York City, and Kenya, Barack Obama spent his childhood and his early adulthood traveling the world. What I liked best about this book is that author Garen Tho...
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Ancestry.com said it had evidence that "strongly suggests" Mr. Obama's family tree -- on his mother's side -- stretches back nearly four centuries to a slave in colonial Virginia named John Punch. President Barack Obama's biography -- son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas -- has long suggested that unlike most African-Americans, his roots did not include slavery.
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Here are 11 things you may not know about our 44th president's adolescence in Hawaii, from David Maraniss' new biography "Barack Obama: The Story. *He was not an A student -- "but he knew what he wanted to talk about and was very good at putting it on paper," said classmate Joe Hanson.
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Throughout Yes We Can are photos of [Barack Obama] from his childhood, his college years and, more recently, with his family and during his campaign trail, as well as quotes from his famous speeches. The author also provides sidebars with further explanations of facts, like the results of state primaries and caucuses, laws Obama helped pass and a map displaying Obama and his extended family's travels and residences and his family tree. The author also provides sidebars with further explanations of facts, like the results of state primaries and caucuses, laws Obama helped pass and a map displaying Obama and his extended family's travels and residences and his family tree.
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Paul Kengor -- Cold War scholar at Grove City College, author of best-selling books on Ronald Reagan, Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush and American liberals and progressives duped by communists -- aims to fill a gap in Barack Obama's life story with his new book, "The Communist" (Simon & Schuster/Mercury Ink). Subtitled "Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mentor," it's a biography of a man -- referred to only as "Frank" in Obama's "Dreams from My Father" -- who knew Obama during the future president's youth in Hawaii.
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OVER THE PAST three years, American politics has been dominated by a liberal fantasy and a conservative freakout. The fantasy was the idea that President Barack Obama, a one-term senator with an appealing biography and a silver tongue, would turn out to be Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Robert F. Kennedy and Mahatma Gandhi all rolled into one.
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The mother long relegated to a bit role emerges in a new biography as a major influence. For a long time Barack Obama's mother was little more than the "white woman from Wichita" mentioned in an early Los Angeles Times profile of the future president. She was the pale Kansan silhouette against whom Obama drew the vivid Kenyan figure of his absent Dad in his Bildungsroman of discovered black identity, "Dreams from My Father.
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Barack Obama has read and been influenced by Robert A. Caro's classic biography of Robert Moses, "The Power Broker." From the evidence, it is far from clear, though, that he has read Caro's other books, the latest being the fourth installment of his massive Lyndon B. Johnson biography - "The Passage of Power." He should read it. It will teach him how to be president. Where Johnson was strong and unparalleled, Obama is frighteningly weak. Last week I asked a member of the Senate if he knows of anyone who really knows Obama. He does not. Washington is thick with stories about Obama's distance. We hear how he does not listen to criticism and how he sticks to a tight circle of friends. His usual weekly golf game is mostly limited to the same people. Lyndon Johnson, in contrast, ...
