NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 27, 2009
"An alert, thoroughly readable assessment of a candidacy that seemed unlikely only to those who weren't paying attention."
The editor-in-chief of the NAACP's
The Crisis magazine conducts a celebratory
tour d'horizon of the cultural and political developments that paved the way for Barack Obama's rise.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Aug. 26, 2008
"Still, of the three candidates' picture-book biographies out this season, this stands as the one most likely to communicate to children on a visceral level. (author's, illustrator's notes, resources, timeline, family tree) (Picture book/biography. 5-10)"
When David wonders why all those people on TV are shouting one man's name, his mother tells him Barack Obama's story.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 1, 1995
"At its best, despite an occasional lack of analysis, this affecting study of self-definition perceptively reminds us that the dilemmas of race generally express themselves in terms of individual human struggles."
