Rising Star -The Making of Barack Obama -David J. Garrow

Barack Obamas keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catapulted the littleknownstate senator from Illinois into the national spotlight Three months later Obama would win election to the USSenate four years later he would make history as Americas first black president Now at the end of his secondpresidential term David J Garrow delivers the most compelling and comprehensive Obama biography as epic invision and rigorous in detail as Robert Caros The Power BrokerMoving around the globe from Hawaii to Indonesia to the American Northeast and Midwest Rising Starmeticulously unpacks Obamas life from his tumultuous upbringing in Honolulu and Jakarta to his formative time asa community organizer on Chicagos South Side working in some of the roughest neighborhoods to Cambridgewhere he excelled at Harvard Law School and finally back to Chicago where he pursued his political destiny Involuminous detail drawn from more than 1000 interviews and encyclopedic documentary research Garrow revealsas never before the ambition the dreams and the alltoo human struggles of an iconic president in a sure to benewsmaking biography that will stand as the most authoritative account of Obamas prepresidential life for decadesto come