In Barack Obama David Maraniss has written a sweeping narrative which reveals the real story of Obama's beginnings child of a black man from Luoland and a white woman born in Texas. He charts the fortunes of the two disparate families, polar opposites in every way which produced these two extraordinary individuals who met briefly in Hawaii, never cohabited, and married only to legitimize the child born of that union. At the heart of Obama's psyche and his ...
