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Books on Obama (page 3)


Cover art for ¡OBÁMANOS!
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Released: Nov. 2, 2009

"The perfect book with which to recall and appreciate the significance of Obama's journey to the White House."
A collection of astute articles penned as longtime New Yorker writer Hertzberg (Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966–2004, 2004, etc.) watched Barack Obama's historic presidential campaign. Read full book review >
Cover art for WHAT OBAMA MEANS
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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. Read full book review >
Cover art for DREAMS FROM MY FATHER
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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."
An honest, often poetic memoir about growing up biracial. Read full book review >