Barack Obama: The Story

  • Author: David Maraniss
  • Narrator: David Maraniss
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 24:21:07
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Synopsis

From the author of First in His Class, the definitive biography of Bill Clinton, this New York Times bestseller was hailed by critics as a groundbreaking multigenerational biography, a richly textured account of President Obama and the forces that shaped him and sustain him.

In Barack Obama: The Story, David Maraniss has written a deeply reported generational biography teeming with fresh insights and revealing information, a masterly narrative drawn from hundreds of interviews, including with President Obama in the Oval Office, and a trove of letters, journals, diaries, and other documents.

The book unfolds in the small towns of Kansas and the remote villages of western Kenya, following the personal struggles of Obama’s white and black ancestors through the swirl of the twentieth century. It is a roots story on a global scale, a saga of constant movement, frustration and accomplishment, strong women and weak men, hopes lost and deferred, people leaving and being left. Disparate family threads converge in the climactic chapters as Obama reaches adulthood and travels from Honolulu to Los Angeles to New York to Chicago, trying to make sense of his past, establish his own identity, and prepare for his political future.

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 he does. Much like the author’s classic study of Bill Clinton, First in His Class, this promises to become a seminal book that will redefine a president.

Chapters

  • BarackObama 21 Chapter6c

    Duration: 27min
  • BarackObama 22 Chapter7a

    Duration: 16min
  • BarackObama 23 Chapter7b

    Duration: 18min
  • BarackObama 24 Chapter7c

    Duration: 18min
  • BarackObama 25 Chapter8a

    Duration: 16min
  • BarackObama 26 Chapter8b

    Duration: 20min
  • BarackObama 27 Chapter8c

    Duration: 16min
  • BarackObama 28 Chapter8d

    Duration: 22min
  • BarackObama 29 Chapter9a

    Duration: 11min
  • BarackObama 30 Chapter9b

    Duration: 20min
  • BarackObama 31 Chapter9c

    Duration: 23min
  • BarackObama 32 Chapter9d

    Duration: 29min
  • BarackObama 33 Chapter10a

    Duration: 20min
  • BarackObama 34 Chapter10b

    Duration: 27min
  • BarackObama 35 Chapter11a

    Duration: 26min
  • BarackObama 36 Chapter11b

    Duration: 20min
  • BarackObama 37 Chapter11c

    Duration: 26min
  • BarackObama 38 Chapter12a

    Duration: 26min
  • BarackObama 39 Chapter12b

    Duration: 21min
  • BarackObama 40 Chapter12c

    Duration: 13min
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