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Barack Obama
President of the United States from 2009 to 2017
For other uses, see Barack Obama (disambiguation).
"Barack" and "Obama" redirect here. For other uses, see Barack (disambiguation) and Obama (disambiguation).
Barack Obama | |
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Official portrait, 2012 | |
| In office January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017 | |
| Vice President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | George W. Bush |
| Succeeded by | Donald Trump |
| In office January 3, 2005 – November 16, 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Peter Fitzgerald |
| Succeeded by | Roland Burris |
| In office January 8, 1997 – November 4, 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Alice Palmer |
| Succeeded by | Kwame Raoul |
| Born | Barack Hussein Obama II (1961-08-04) August 4, 1961 (age 63) Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
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| Relatives | Obama family |
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| Awards | Full list |
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Barack Hussein Obama II[a] (born August 4,
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Books by Barack Obama
Barack Obama was an award-winning author before he was a Nobel Peace Prize-winning president. The first volume of his presidential memoirs, A Promised Land, came out in 2020; the second volume is (apparently) nearing completion in 2024. His wife, former first lady Michelle Obama has also written bestselling books.
Barack Obama’s first foray into book writing was Dreams from My Father, a much-acclaimed memoir about his early life growing up in the United States and his pilgrimage to Kenya, the country where his father had been born and to which he returned when Barack was a young child.
Before becoming President he wrote The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, which was published in 2006. This was something of a political manifesto, setting out his vision for how to deliver on the promise of democracy and how to try and overcome the obstacles and obstructions that partisanship, special interests and money can often throw in its
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Rising Star (book)
David Garrow's 2017 biography of Barack Obama
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama is a 2017 biography of former President of the United StatesBarack Obama by American author and academic David Garrow.[1] It is Garrow's fifth book.[2][3]
Background
[edit]Working on the book for nine years,[4] Garrow interviewed Obama on several occasions for the book, though much of those conversations remain off the record.[5]
Reception
[edit]The book was published by William Morrow on May 9, 2017, to mixed reviews.[6] In The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani called the book "a dreary slog of a read: a bloated, tedious and — given its highly intemperate epilogue — ill-considered book that is in desperate need of editing, and way more exhausting than exhaustive."[7] In Time, Sarah Begley said the book nevertheless did "contain intriguing insight into the growing pains of a 20-something wh