An authoritative, lavishly photographed history of the 44th commander-in-chief's presidency evaluates Obama's in-office achievements and disappointments to assess his qualitative legacy, sharing insights into the public and behind-the-scenes events that marked his eight tumultuous years.
Peter Baker’s authoritative history of the Obama presidency is the first complete account that will stand the test of time. Baker takes the measure of Obama's achievements and disappointments in office and brings into focus the real legacy of the man who, as he described himself, "doesn't look like all the presidents on the dollar bills."
With vivid color photographs by New York Times photographers and others of the events, major and minor, public and behind-the-scenes, that defined Barack Obama's eight years in office, Obama: The Call of History is a portrait in full of America's first African-American president against the background of these tumultuous times.
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Published in 2004, Barack Obama is the son of an African father and white American mother discussing his childhood in Hawaii, his struggle to find his identity as an African American, and his life accomplishments.
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American.
It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
Look back on the life of President Obama in Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.
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With a foreword by President Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela's Conversations With Myself fraws on the author's personal archive of never-before-seen papers to offer unique access to the private world of the incomparable world leader, who worked from prison to end apartheid in South Africa.
"[Nelson Mandela] has done so much to change his country, and the world, that it is hard to imagine the history of the last several decades without him." - from the foreword by President Barack Obama
Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. After a lifetime of recording thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he opened his personal archive, which offers unprecedented insight into his remarkable autobiography.
From letters written in the darkest hours of his 27 years of imprisonment to the draft of an unfinished sequel to Long Walk to Freedom, Conversations With Myself gives readers access to the private man behind the public figure.
Here he is making notes and even doodling during meetings, or transcribing troubled dreams on the desk calendar in his prison cell on Robben Island; writing journals while on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle in the early 1960s, and conversing with friends in almost 70 hours of recorded conversations. Here he is neither icon nor saint.
An intimate journey from the first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage, Conversations With Myself is a rare chance to spend time with Nelson Mandela the man, in his own voice: direct, clear, private.
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