(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
61) Barack
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A picture book biography of African-American senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama
65) Barack Obama
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Language
English
Description
Follow Obama from his early childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, through his teenage struggles for self-identity, his student days at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, and his political career in Chicago. Go behind the scenes of Obama's extraordinarily successful presidential campaign and his journey to the 2008 Democratic Convention, and finally his election as president
Author
Publisher
Voracious / Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Go behind the scenes of the West Wing--into the Oval Office and Situation Room, aboard Air Force One, and beyond--with #1 bestselling author and former presidential photographer Pete Souza.
Pete Souza has spent more time in the Oval Office than almost any person in history. During the Obama administration alone, Souza was inside the presidential bubble for more than 25,000 hours and made nearly 2 million photographs. The result is an unprecedented...
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Barack Obama became the first African American president of the United States and made a lot of important changes during his time in office. Before he made history fighting for health care, the environment, and civil rights, he was a smart kid who knew he wanted to help others. He worked hard to become a lawyer, a senator, and then the president, all so that he could change people's lives for the better" -- back cover.
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The author recounts how his exposure to the criminal underclass while serving time in a state-run confinement center opened his eyes to the ways in which the behavior and world view of those criminals resembled the politics of American liberalism.
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Alterman asks why President Obama has been unable to deliver on the promise of the 2008 campaign. He argues that while Obama's compromises have disappointed many of his supporters, his failure is primarily due to a political system that stymies democracy when voters choose progressive change
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Barack Obama is arguably the most dynamic political figure to grace the American stage since John F. Kennedy. His meteoric rise from promise to power has stunned even the cynics and inspired a legion of devout followers. For anyone who wants to know more about the man, David Mendell's Obama is essential reading. Mendell, who covered Obama for the Chicago Tribune, had far-reaching access to the Chicago politician as Obama climbed the ladder to the...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The great elder statesman of consumer rights shows how previous administrations allowed unchecked corporate power to lead us to the criminality of Trump. Nader brings together the outrages of the Trump administration with the key flaws and failures of the previous administrations--both Republican and Democratic--that have led us to this precipice. Writing as a Washington, D.C. activist and people's advocate since the early 1960s--one who has caused...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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]
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...
80) Barack Obama
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request