Barack Obama’s Biography

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Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office, as well as the first president born in Hawaii. Obama previously served as the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008.

Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.

Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he ran for United States Senate in 2004. During the campaign, several events brought him to national attention, such as his victory in the March 2004 Democratic primary election for the United States Senator from Illinois as well as his prime-time televised keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in November 2004.

Obama began his run for the presidency in February 2007. After a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Clinton, he won his party’s nomination. In the 2008 general election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Obama is the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

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Writings by Barack Obama include:

• Change Has Come: An Artist Celebrates Our American Spirit
• Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama’s Plan to Renew America’s Promise
• Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Writings on Barack Obama include:

• Barrack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography by Webster Griffin Tarpley
• Barack, Inc: Winning Business Lessons of the Obama Campaign by Barry Libert
• Barack Obama for Beginners: An Essential Guide by Bob Neer
  
• Barack Obama: The Movement for Change by Anthony Painter
• Barack Obama: The Official Inaugural Book by Tom Brokaw
• Hopes and Dreams: The Story of Barack Obama by Steve Dougherty
• How Barack Obama Won: A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election by Chuck Todd and Sheldon Gawiser
• Obama: From Promise to Power by David Mendell
• Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photos by Deborah Willis and Kevin Merida
• Obama: The Postmodern Coup by Webster Tarpley
• Obama’s Challenge: America’s Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency by Robert Kuttner
• Say It Like Obama: The Power of Speaking with Purpose and Vision by Shel Leanne
  
• Say It Like Obama and WIN!: The Power of Speaking with Purpose and Vision by Shel Leanne
• The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate by David Freddoso
• The Faith of Barack Obama by Stephen Mansfield