Barack Obama: We Are One People, Revised and Expanded

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Barack Obama's meteoric rise to the presidency began with his speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004. This same year, he went from being an Illinois state senator to being elected a United States senator. Just over two years later, he declared his candidacy for president. By November 2008, he was elected president. In this biography, the reader finds out about Obama's life, from his childhood in Hawaii to his rise to become 44th president of the United States-the first African-American ...
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Overview

Barack Obama's meteoric rise to the presidency began with his speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004. This same year, he went from being an Illinois state senator to being elected a United States senator. Just over two years later, he declared his candidacy for president. By November 2008, he was elected president. In this biography, the reader finds out about Obama's life, from his childhood in Hawaii to his rise to become 44th president of the United States-the first African-American commander-in-chief in the history of the U.S.
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Children's Literature - Melissa Zanot
This book is from the "African-American Biography Library" and is part of a series that includes other prominent African American figures including Ida B. Wells Barnett, Muhammad Ali, and Zora Neale Hurston. This is an excellent resource book that include a table of contents, index, chapters, and chapter notes. Any teenager, or adult, who is studying Barack Obama could use this as a resource book. It starts with his childhood, life with Tutu and Lolo, and moves to his presidency, the journey we continue today. Each chapter deals with a struggle and a success for a man who wondered where he fit in the world. There are also wonderful illustrations that include maps, snapshots, and other pictures. Each chapter includes side notes that help bring the chapter into better focus. This book should be read by anyone who wonders who is this president, where does he stand, and what is in his past and present. Reviewer: Melissa Zanot
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780766036499
  • Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 5/1/2009
  • Series: African-American Biography Library
  • Format: Library Binding
  • Edition description: Revised
  • Pages: 160
  • Age range: 9 - 12 Years
  • Product dimensions: 6.50 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Table of Contents

1 On Stage in Front of the World 5

2 Life With Tutu and Lolo 13

3 Days at Punahou 26

4 "Not as Long as You Say It Right" 40

5 The World of Business 51

6 The Organizer 61

7 His Father's Past and His Own Future 71

8 In the Footsteps of Lincoln 83

9 "Are You Making Other People's Lives a Little Bit Better?" 96

10 Change Comes to America 111

11 "The Journey We Continue Today" 128

Chronology 145

Chapter Notes 147

Further Reading and Internet Addresses 157

Index 158

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