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Barack Obama's keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic Country wide Convention instantly catapulted the little-known talk about senator from Illinois in to the national spotlight. Three months later Obama would win election to the united states Senate; four years later he'd make history as America's first black president. Now, at the end of his second presidential term, David J. Garrow gives the most persuasive and extensive biography ever before written of Obama in the years preceding his presidency. Moving around the world, from Hawaii to Indonesia to the American Northeast and Midwest, Growing Celebrity: The Making of Barack Obama meticulously unpacks Obama's life, from his tumultuous upbringing in Honolulu and Jakarta to his formative time as a community organizer on Chicago's South Aspect, working in a few of the roughest neighborhoods, to Cambridge, where he excelled at Harvard Laws School, and lastly back again to Chicago, where he pursued his political destiny. In voluminous aspect, attracted from more than 1,000 interviews and encyclopedic documentary research, Garrow discloses as never before the ambition, the dreams, and the all-too-human challenges of any iconic president in a sure to be news-making biography that will stand as the most authoritative consideration of Obama's pre-presidential life for many years to come.

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