Maraniss, an associate editor at The Washington Post, has written a new biography of the 44th president: Barack Obama: The Story.The book delves into Obama's family history and his pre-political ...

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Barack Obama. The Story. David Maraniss. Simon & Schuster: 643 pp., $32.50. Abnormal men become presidents of the United States. The overweening self-confidence required to reach for the office ...

The young Obama he shows in the mammoth Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (William Morrow, 1,078 pp., *** out of four stars) is a magnetic but calculating shape shifter who nursed ...

Tablet’s lengthy Q&A with David Garrow, who wrote the 2017 biography "Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama," has stunned social media with fascinating claims about the former president.

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has billed his presidential campaign as a grassroots movement for change. In speeches, he often cites the standing-room only crowds he has drawn across the country as a ...

In “Barack Obama: The Story,” David Maraniss has written a global, multigenerational saga that culminates in the emergence of a young man who is knowable, recognizable and real.

A biography of President Barack Obama is coming this spring from New Yorker editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Remnick. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says "The Bridge: The Life and Rise of ...

A biography of President Barack Obama is coming this spring from New Yorker editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Remnick. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says “The Bridge: The Life and Rise ...

President Barack Obama. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster (CBS News) A new biography excerpted Friday in the Washington Post sheds light on some of President Obama's formative experiences coming to terms ...

The Obama biography will be entitled, "The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama"; it opens with candidate Obama at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Remnick interviewed Obama, along ...