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Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"A personal, intimate, photographic celebration of President Barack Obama in the years prior to his presidency, from friend and former aide David Katz"--
In 2004, Katz worked alongside then Senate-hopeful Barack Obama as a photographer and personal aide. As they campaigned across downstate Illinois, they developed a professional and personal relationship. This is a treasury of the photographs Katz took of Obama as a husband, a father, an unknown...
Publisher
Distributed by Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Based on the work of Dinesh D'Souza, 2016: Obama's America is the highest-grossing conservatively-slanted documentary of all time. It lays out D'Souza's belief that Obama would attempt to significantly reduce the U.S.'s influence within the world during his second term as President of the United States. He based his conclusions on Obama's father's purported anti-colonialism and on Obama's purported psychological desire to fulfill his father's dream...
85) Barack Obama
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An elementary biography of United States senator from Illinois Barack Obama; discusses his childhood, ethnic background, family, and career in politics"--Provided by publisher
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
xiii, 354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bunch reveals the secrets he sees behind the crusade against Obama, exploring how forces like radical militia groups, the Tea Party, pro-gun zealots, and Glenn Beck have combined old-fashioned populist outrage with digital-age phobias to produce a wave of resentment that many have ridden straight to the bank.
87) One October
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A lyrical time capsule that offers a window into the shifting heart of New York City. Filmed entirely in October of 2008, a time when gentrification is rapidly displacing the working and middle classes, Wall Street is plummeting, and Senator Obama is making his first presidential bid, the story begins with Clay Pigeon, an intrepid radio host who takes to the streets of New York City to talk to everyday citizens who are facing the uncertainty of change....
Author
Publisher
WND Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xiii, 230 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the shocking political exposé The Audacity of Deceit, you'll learn about Barack Obama's plans to "change" our country and your life by: raising taxes from the low rate of 28% under Ronald Reagan to economy-destroying 60% rate under Herbert Hoover; handing out Federal medical insurance to more than 12 million aliens, and increasing emergency room costs by $15.4 billion annually; appointing ultra-liberal, anti-business Supreme Court judges who would...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Timely--as the 2012 presidential election nears--and controversial for its bracing iconoclasm, The Persistence of the Color Line is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on racial politics and the Obama presidency. Renowned for his cool reason vis--̉vis the pitfalls and clichš of racial discourse, Randall Kennedy--former clerk to late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Harvard professor of law, and author of the New...
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2005
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (7 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
"[I]n New York ... Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance"--Container...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xxi, 294 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The remarkable memoir of George Obama, President Obama's Kenyan half brother, who found the inspiration to strive for his goal--to better the lives of his own people--in his elder brother's example. The father they shared died when George was six months old. George was a star pupil at a top boarding school, but after his mother and stepfather separated when he was fifteen, his life crashed and burned. He dropped out of school and soon gravitated to...
95) Renegade
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2009
Physical Desc
5 compact discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wolffe presents an insider's view Barack Obama's run for the presidency, describing his many personal and professional triumphs and obstacles he encountered on the campaign trail and his eventual election as the nation's forty-fourth president.
Series
Publisher
Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 80 min.) : sd., col. w/b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A fresh and relevant narrative about the men who led this country through change and the lives they affected, from an early idea of democracy to our first African-American President
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