Author(s): David Mendell

Biography, YA,children

From the veteran journalist who knows him best comes a comprehensive biography of the presidential hopeful America can't stop talking about: Barack Obama. The author, a Chicago Tribune reporter who has been covering Obama since his senatorial campaign gives readers an up-close look at how the biracial son of a Kenyan economist and a Kansas anthropologist rose from anonymity to superstardom. Chronicling Obama's childhood and young adulthood to his senatorial tenure and presidential campaign through the Ohio primaries, the author's extensive research includes interviews with Obama's closest aides, mentors, adversaries and family. Young Readers' adaptation of 'From Promise to Power'.