The Best Biographies of Barack Obama

February 17, 2019

Barack Obama undoubtedly possesses one of the most complicated – and fascinating – backgrounds of any former president of the …

Review of “Barack Obama: The Story” by David Maraniss

February 15, 2019

David Maraniss’s “Barack Obama: The Story” was published in 2012. Maraniss is a journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for …

February 11, 2019

David Garrow’s “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama” was published in 2017 and named a “Best Book of 2017” …

February 7, 2019

David Remnick’s “The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama” was published in 2010 and covers the 44th president’s …

February 3, 2019

After more than six years, I’ve finally arrived at the last person whose biographies I’m reading on this first trip …

September 13, 2015

In this era of unfathomable computing power and data storage capacity it is hard to imagine such a concept as …