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The Other Barack
The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father
By Jacobs, Sally H.
- ISBN
- 978-1-58648-793-5
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs: Perseus
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Reviewed on July 15, 2011
In her first book, Jacobs (Boston Globe), a George Polk Award-winning journalist, presents a concise and engrossing story of the man President Obama hardly knew. Barack Obama Sr. (1936–82) was a brilliant but flawed man whose arrogance, drinking, and womanizing prevented his reaching the heights for which he had seemed destined. Jacobs interviewed many of Obama Sr.'s family and acquaintances in Africa and elsewhere to chart vividly his life...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
on onJuly 15, 2011 | LJXpress
In her first book, Jacobs (Boston Globe), a George Polk Award-winning journalist, presents a concise and engrossing story of the man President Obama hardly knew. Barack Obama Sr. (1936–82) was a brilliant but flawed man whose arrogance, drinking, and womanizing prevented his reaching the heights for which he had seemed destined. Jacobs interviewed many of Obama Sr.'s family and acquaintances in Africa and elsewhere to chart vividly his life...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
