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In this nuanced and complex portrait of Barack Obama,Pulitzer Prize-winner David Remnick offers a thorough, intricate,and riveting account of the unique experiences that shaped ournation’s first African American president.
Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends andteachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obamahimself, Remnick explores the elite institutions that first exposedObama to social tensions, and the intellectual currents thatcontributed to his identity. Using America’s racial history as abackdrop for Obama’s own story, Remnick further reveals how aninitially rootless and confused young man built on the experiencesof an earlier generation of black leaders to become one of thecentral figures of our time.
Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends andteachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obamahimself, Remnick explores the elite institutions that first exposedObama to social tensions, and the intellectual currents thatcontributed to his identity. Using America’s racial history as abackdrop for Obama’s own story, Remnick further reveals how aninitially rootless and confused young man built on the experiencesof an earlier generation of black leaders to become one of thecentral figures of our time.