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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father, a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man, has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey, first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
The junior senator from Illinois discusses how to transform U.S. politics, calling for a return to America's original ideals and revealing how they can address such issues as globalization and the function of religion in public life.
3) Barack Obama
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Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
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Description
Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick demonstrates how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, then as a Harvard Law School graduate, and finally as President of the United States "By looking at Obama's political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us...
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