Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President

Barack Obama's inspirational politics and personal mythology have overshadowed his fascinating history. Young Mr. Obama gives us the missing chapter: the portrait of the politician as a young leader, often too ambitious for his own good, but still equipped with a rare ability to inspire change. The route to the White House began on the streets of Chicago's South Side.




Edward McClelland, a veteran Chicago journalist, tells the real story of the first black president's political education in t...