14.0%OFF
Download App
| >> | LShop | >> | Book | >> | Biography & True Sto... | >> | Biography: General | >> | A Singular Woman: Th... |
14.0%OFF
A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother
-
ISBN
:
9781594487972
-
Publisher
:
Riverhead Hardcover
-
Subject
:
Biography: General
-
Binding
:
HARDCOVER
-
Pages
:
384
-
Year
:
2011
₹
2299.0
14.0% OFF
₹
1977.0
1977.0
Buy Now
Shipping charges are applicable for books below Rs. 101.0
View Details(Imported Edition) Estimated Shipping Time : 20-23 Business Days
View Details
-
Description
A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama--his mother. Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is known about Stanley Ann Dunham, the fiercely independent woman who raised him, the person he credits for, as he says, "what is best in me." Here is the missing piece of the story. Award-winning reporter Janny Scott interviewed nearly two hundred of Dunham's friends, colleagues, and relatives (including both her children), and combed through boxes of personal and professional papers, letters to friends, and photo albums, to uncover the full breadth of this woman's inspiring and untraditional life, and to show the remarkable extent to which she shaped the man Obama is today. Dunham's story moves from Kansas and Washington state to Hawaii and Indonesia. It begins in a time when interracial marriage was still a felony in much of the United States, and culminates in the present, with her son as our president- something she never got to see. It is a poignant look at how character is passed from parent to child, and offers insight into how Obama's destiny was created early, by his mother's extraordinary faith in his gifts, and by her unconventional mothering. Finally, it is a heartbreaking story of a woman who died at age fifty-two, before her son would go on to his greatest accomplishments and reflections of what she taught him.
Related Items
-
of
-
OFFER
Antharjanam: Memoirs of a Namboodiri Woman (Oxford India Paperbacks)
Devaki Nilayamgode
Starts At
238.0
310.0
23% OFF
-
OFFER
The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb: Founder of Save the Children
Clare Mulley
Starts At
1466.0
1929.0
24% OFF
-
OFFER
Assault on Merit: The Untold Story of Civil-Military Relations
R. K. Anand
Starts At
415.0
495.0
16% OFF
-
OFFER
Atiya's Journeys: A Muslim Woman from Colonial Bombay to Edwardian Britain
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
Starts At
6842.0
9638.0
29% OFF
-
OFFER
Cornelia Sorabji: India's Pioneer Woman Lawyer: A Biography
Suparna Gooptu
Starts At
1781.0
1958.0
9% OFF
-
OFFER
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World (Macsci)
Shelley Emling
Starts At
1738.0
2021.0
14% OFF
-
OFFER
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose DiscoveriesChanged the World (Macmillan Science)
Shelley Emling
Starts At
2802.0
3687.0
24% OFF
-
OFFER
The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and Justice
Joanne Belknap
Starts At
6523.0
9188.0
29% OFF
-
OFFER
A God Who Hates: The Courageous Woman Who Inflamed the Muslim World Speaks Out Against the Evils of Islam
Wafa Sultan
Starts At
524.0
699.0
25% OFF
-
OFFER
The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate
Marjorie Williams
Starts At
1632.0
2299.0
29% OFF
-
OFFER
Complications: Notes from the Life of a Young Surgeon
Atul Gawande
Starts At
242.0
299.0
19% OFF
-
OFFER
Freedom from Fear and Other Writings: Revised Edition
Aung San Suu Kyi
Starts At
379.0
499.0
24% OFF
