{"product_id":"9781439160404","title":"Barack Obama: The Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eFirst In His Class\u003c\/i\u003e, the definitive biography of Bill Clinton, and \u003ci\u003eWhen Pride Still Mattered\u003c\/i\u003e, the bestselling biography of Vince Lombardi, and \u003ci\u003eThey Marched Into Sunlight, \u003c\/i\u003ethe classic saga of the Vietnam era—a stunning new multigenerational biography of Barack Obama.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of our preeminent journalists and modern historians comes the epic story of Barack Obama and the world that created him.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBarack Obama: The Story, \u003c\/i\u003eDavid 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarack Obama: The Story \u003c\/i\u003echronicles 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, \u003ci\u003eFirst in His Class, \u003c\/i\u003ethis promises to become a seminal book that will redefine a president.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48729085640944,"sku":"9781439160404","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439160404_p0.jpg?v=1768854683","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439160404","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}