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,
“... of how Obama came so grievously to disappoint his supporters as well as, perhaps, himself. Sally Jacobs’s The Other Barack tells the sad story of the president’s father. Despite occasionally pedestrian prose, the biography is unsparing in its detail and unsentimental in its judgments. Barack Obama Sr emerges as a minor tragic figure. He was ... ”