David Garrow, "Rising Star"

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In this comprehensive biography of the pre-presidential Obama, Garrow, who won the Pulitzer for Bearing the Cross, his life of Martin Luther King, looks in detail at each stage of Obama’s personal and political development. Drawing on more than a thousand interviews, Garrow, professor of law and history and Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, vividly evokes his subject’s early years in Hawaii and Indonesia, follows his academic progress from primary school through law school, and charts his political education as a community organizer and state senator. Garrow profiles the people who influenced Obama and shows how Obama used these influences. Epic in scale, this profound portrait of a leader takes Obama’s story up to the moment he decides to run for president.
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Produced by Tom Warren

[@MrMustafaQadri]

What a tragedy that such a talented individual was such a disappointing, status quo president.

[@babyspider99]

It's called a God damn fraud, president Obama was a pure fraud. He is a half white limousine liberal, most likely homosexual and anti Semitic

[@annchovey2089]

And that racism is worse now than ever.

[@GiantSandles]

46:58 What happened there lol

[@CAnn-rt5gu]

The lip smacking is SO distracting. If one is going to speak in public, one MUST rrealize how detrimental that habit is to some of the audience's ability to focus on what the speaker is saying. Sorry.

[@speakfreely3633]

BARRY likes lip MALE smackers.

[@alramone1]

Garrow spends all his time doing research and writing and he's not a great speaker as a result.

[@HDBerlin]

The British are more respectful by referring to people as Mr instead of first name referral.

[@BestResuMS]

Interesting interview! Awesome book! As a Trump supported who just finished the book, I wish my fellow Conservatives would withhold comments on material they have not read.

[@sawyerramos3113]

What are the key secrets? I dont wanna read it

[@scottiedog4236]

@@sawyerramos3113 Hollow Man

[@alramone1]

@@sawyerramos3113 Obama was a brilliant, self-made guy who was raised by his grandparents in Hawaii. By his mid-20s, he realized it was his destiny to become U.S. president.

[@foxfly23]

​@@alramone1Philippines mentioned?

[@5kehhn]

I don't like barack obama.

[@brianwalsh6864]

Why?

[@5kehhn]

Brian, if you have to ask; it wouldn't do much good for me to give you a reply.

[@melissatrowell8434]

Really that's not even his real name is name is Barry Soetoro I mean his whole life is a lie I like to read this book just to see how many lies he has told the American people not the author Barry I wonder if it tells Michelle used to be a man cuz we all saw what she got in her pants and they are in a vagina it dangles I believe that's why I'm the comedian Joan Rivers was killed

[@martell203]

You mean Barry Soetoro?

[@robertpuente3505]

Rob Fischer is a good friend; his flaccid defense of Barack's love of celebrity, as using a "new power" is laughable

[@jimhayd7857]

“I think this is a good audience and a good community in which to say this--“ what are the bad communities?

[@jamesstokes867]

Why wasnt he interest in the Bushes, Reagan, Clinton, Nixon all major figures in the 20th and 21th century. Dont understand his obessesion only with the major black ones.

[@renaerawlins7705]

Maybe he is the AntiChrist

[@annchovey2089]

He’s not smart enough.

[@bigkeemy1]

I hate how he keeps referring to him by his first name "Barack". Idkanyone who refers to a presdident that way. Give him some respect.

[@studlyload]

He's white...a self-important privilege will give you that disrespect.

[@GiantSandles]

@@studlyload I don't think you can extrapolate that he's a racist just because he displays an overfamiliarity (if it's even that, I think calling someone by their first name is pretty normal and insisting that you shouldn't because someone's in a position of authority is servile) with someone he wrote a 1,000 page biography about lol

[@beverlyfowler5420]

Why?

[@autofocus4556]

He’s human like anyone else. That’s the whole point of his book.