Amazon.com Who were the U.S. presidents? What did they accomplish? What qualities defined them, both as public figures and private men? In this made-for-PBS documentary series, brilliantly adapted from the acclaimed book The American President, these questions and others related to the presidents are answered with...
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Review “The phenomenon that is Barack Obama has intrigued us all. Who is Barack Obama? The editors of LIFE have gone a very long way toward helping us all answer this question. Senator Obama’s singularly American life has been characterized by tragedy and triumph, drama and despair,...
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/26/2008 Run time: 2220 minutes Rating: Nr (more…)
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Review ‘Like Bill Clinton, he has the knack of weaving together the personal and the anecdotal with the political and the conceptual, so that each point seems both persuasive and commonsensical.’ Guardian –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ...
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From Publishers Weekly Elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama was offered a book contract, but the intellectual journey he planned to recount became instead this poignant, probing memoir of an unusual life. Born in 1961 to a white American woman and a...
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From School Library Journal Grade 5–8—This update of the 2005 edition includes a large cover photo of Barack Obama, a foreword by him, revised coverage of George W. Bush’s tenure, and a brief overview of Obama’s political career and election. Four new two-page essays about topics related...
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