A History of Disappointment
Jackson Lears: Obama’s Parents, 5 January 2012
The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama’s Father
by Sally Jacobs.
Public Affairs, 336 pp., £20, July 2011,978 1 58648 793 5 Show More
by Sally Jacobs.
Public Affairs, 336 pp., £20, July 2011,
A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother
by Janny Scott.
Riverhead, 384 pp., £18.99, May 2011,978 1 59448 797 2 Show More
by Janny Scott.
Riverhead, 384 pp., £18.99, May 2011,
“... vague, that a dramatic social transformation was in the air. The grandiloquent rhetoric of John F. Kennedy fed the recurrent American dream of world regeneration. As a black African on the cutting edge of his country’s drive for independence, Barack was determined to be at the centre of whatever shifts occurred. The East-West Center encouraged global ... ”