The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father
(Sprache: Englisch)
An intrepid investigative reporter tells the full story of the troubled life and times of President Obama's largely absent father-and brings to life both the man his son barely knew and the tragic history of post-colonial Kenya.
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An intrepid investigative reporter tells the full story of the troubled life and times of President Obama's largely absent father-and brings to life both the man his son barely knew and the tragic history of post-colonial Kenya.
Autoren-Porträt von Sally H. Jacobs
Sally Jacobs lives in Boston. She has been an investigative reporter for over three decades. Recently she has specialized in political reporting and profiles including the famously reclusive Joan Kennedy, Michelle Obama and Deval Patrick. This is her first book.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Sally H. Jacobs
- 2011, 297 Seiten, Maße: 16 x 23,4 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: PUBLIC AFFAIRS PR
- ISBN-10: 1586487930
- ISBN-13: 9781586487935
Sprache:
Englisch
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Taylor Branch, author of "Parting the Waters "and "The Clinton Tapes""This is a work of genuine discovery. Sally Jacobs portrays the senior Obama with boundless humanity and unflinching candor. Through his fractured family quest, she illuminates both the pitfalls and promise of freedom in a shrinking world. Her biography will enrich our concept of a founding father."John Lonsdale, Emeritus Professor of Modern African History, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom"My favorite injunction to historians--or biographers--comes from the Nigerian playwright and poet Wole Soyinka: 'Leave the dead some room to dance.' The other Barack certainly knew how to dance, literally, intellectually, socially and sexually. Sally Jacobs has wonderfully restored him to life in the contradictory contexts of colonial and independent Kenya, the one exploitative and repressive yet capable of social mobility, the other exciting, full of unprecedented opportunity yet also divisive and chilling in its
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