Mehdi bagher beigi biography of barack obama
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It put the relatively unknown, young senator in the national spotlight.
In November 2004, Illinois delivered 70 percent of its votes to Obama (versus Keyes’ 27 percent), sending him to Washington as only the third African American elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction.
During his tenure, Obama notably focused on issues of nuclear non-proliferation and the health threat posed by avian flu.
Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961.
Obama’s parents later separated, and Barack Sr. went back to Kenya. Obama’s opponent was long-time Arizona Senator John S. McCain, a Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war who chose Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Leaving the state to attend college, he earned degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School.
My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies
Barack Obama undoubtedly possesses one of the most complicated – and fascinating – backgrounds of any former president of the United States.
Born to a father he hardly knew and to a mother he almost never saw, Obama’s path to the White House is one of the most remarkable and unlikely of any I’ve seen.
Obama’s inauguration set an attendance record, with 1.8 million people gathering in the cold to witness it. After winning a closely fought contest against New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination, Obama handily defeated Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican nominee for president, in the general election.
نان و شعر
Majid (Mehdi Bagher Beigi), a bakery worker and aspiring poet, accidentally discovers a portion of Hugo’s Les Miserables and becomes eager to read the whole book.
That July, Obama gave the keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, shooting to national prominence with his eloquent call for unity among “red” (Republican) and “blue” (Democratic) states. (He has indicated an interest in doing so, but only after Obama’s book is published and once his library archives are accessible) — 4¼ stars (Full review here)
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Best Biography of Barack Obama: ***Too early to call***
Follow-up:
– “Obama: The Call of History” (2017) by Peter Baker
– “Obama: From Promise to Power” (2007) by David Mendell
Barack Obama
Barack Obama’s Early Life
Obama’s father, also named Barack Hussein Obama, grew up in a small village in Nyanza Province, Kenya, as a member of the Luo ethnicity.
Amidst these events, Majid’s poem and photo are published in a magazine, and he gains recognition within the poets’ association of the city. For the next several years, he worked with low-income residents in Chicago’s Roseland community and the Altgeld Gardens public housing development on the city’s largely Black South Side.
He helped create a state earned-income tax credit that benefited the working poor, promoted subsidies for early childhood education programs and worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.
Re-elected in 1998 and again in 2002, Obama also ran unsuccessfully in the 2000 Democratic primary for the U.
S. House of Representatives seat held by the popular four-term incumbent Bobby Rush. While at Harvard, he became the first Black editor of the prestigious Harvard Law Review.
Barack Obama, Community Organizer and Attorney
After a two-year stint working in corporate research and at the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago, where he took a job as a community organizer with a church-based group, the Developing Communities Project.
But as a presidential biography it proves a mind-numbing exercise in patience and pointless perseverance – 2 stars (Full review here)
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* “Barack Obama: The Story” (2012) by David Maraniss
I had a great experience with Maraniss’s biography of the young Bill Clinton and this book on Barack Obama’s early life did not disappoint.
I promise you, we as a people will get there.”
Barack Obama was sworn in as the first Black president of the United States on January 20, 2009. With Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, he created a website that tracks all federal spending, aimed at rebuilding citizens’ trust in government. Despite tight Republican control during his years in the state senate, Obama was able to build support among both Democrats and Republicans in drafting legislation on ethics and health care reform.
If elected, Palin would have been the nation’s first-ever female vice-president.
As in the primaries, Obama’s campaign worked to build support at the grassroots level and used what supporters saw as the candidate’s natural charisma, unusual life story and inspiring message of hope and change to draw impressive crowds to Obama’s public appearances, both in the U.S.
and on a campaign trip abroad. He partnered with another Republican, Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, on a bill that expanded efforts to destroy weapons of mass destruction in Eastern Europe and Russia. Sadly, Obama’s maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, died after a battle with cancer on November 3, the day before voters went to the polls. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.
Their two daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha (Sasha), were born in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Its focus, somewhat to my surprise, is as much on Obama’s forebears as Obama himself.