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Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
At a current average rating of 4.59 at this writing, I am glad to see that this book hasn't been subjected to 1-star trolling -- tho probably helps it is from Cody Keenan, head speechwriter for Obama (post Jon Favreau), who I'm guessing a lot of folks don't know -- and shamefully I even have to add my myself to the list! Gladly I can say that has now been corrected and I know his role in what I think will go down as one of the greatest and certainly most memorable presidential speeches - Obama's eulogy for Clementa C. Pinckney, pastor of the Emanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston where the pastor and eight of his parishioners were gunned down by a white supremacist. But backtracking that week (or actually the 10 days of the title) also entailed Supreme Court decisions over the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) and marriage equality -- so as noted in the book, this short time from was some real-life (NBC series) "The West Wing" material.
Going back to the high average rating for this book, I am guessing it is due to folks having the same reaction as I did reading this book. Multiple times I had goosebumps and mistiness in the eyes and it was very personal for me as a gay man with the Supr
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Barack Obama: A Pocket Biography of Our 44th President
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While the beaches of Honolulu were more than just five thousand miles away from the back roads of the Mississippi Delta or the shotgun shacks of the Carolinas, the young Barack Obama was not untouched by the dramatic changes wrought by the black freedom struggles, both in America and elsewhere. Indeed, his very existence was to some degree a consequence of those struggles. His father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., grew up in the small village of Nyangoma-Kogelo in western Kenya, and as a child, herded goats with his father, Hussein Onyango Obama, a domestic servant for British colonial officials. As Barack Obama Jr. would later put it, his grandfather Hussein "had larger dreams for his son," who, first, won a scholarship to study in the capital, Nairobi, and then was selected to participate in a program to educate promising young African students in the United States. The program's founder, the Kenyan nationalist politician and labor leader, Tom Mboya wanted to prepare an African-born elite for government service after the end of British colonial rule, and he looked to America, rather than Britain to do so. To that end, Mboya secured scholarship funds from such civil rig
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