David maraniss biography barack obama the story

The title of David Maraniss' well-researched tome doesn't reveal all that much about its contents.

Barack Obama: The Story is a book written by David Maraniss on the life of United States President Barack Obama.

Customers find the book an engaging read with a well-researched account of the President's history.

The groundbreaking multigenerational biography, a richly textured account of President Obama and the forces that shaped him and sustain him.

Barack Obama: The Story chronicles as never before the forces that shaped the first black president of the United States and explains why he thinks and acts as.

In Barack Obama: The Story, David Maraniss has written a deeply reported generational biography teeming with fresh insights and revealing.

As he mentions in the introduction, we won't be seeing our Obama (aka Barry, aka POTUS 44) until chapter seven of this eighteen-chapter volume, and the narration stops with his departure for Harvard Law in So, this is some pretty deep background; as it is described in various summaries, a multi-generational epic.

Two points about yours truly before I proceed- I have not read Dreams from My Father, and (by pure coincidence, as far as I know) happened to be concurrently reading Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) while working my way through this biography.

Why am I telling you these things? The first is relevant because Maraniss' book is, in many ways, a narrative fact-checking of Obama's memoir. While this biography definitely stands on its own, Maraniss' findings are frequently compared and contrasted to Obama's earlier narrative, wh