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,
“... Washington, near Seattle. Stanley Ann was self-sufficient and wilful. Her sympathetic biographer, Janny Scott, pictures her dreaming of escape from provincial boredom as she pored over stacks of National Geographic magazines. She hated the jock culture of her high school and took refuge in the proto-bohemian set of wise-ass boys who drank ... ”
