Emanuele angelidis biography of barack obama president

It took just one sensational speech in July to make Harvard Law graduate Barack Obama an overnight star. Just three years later the Democratic senator launched his campaign to become first black president of the US. Described by Oprah Winfrey as having a "tongue dipped in the unvarnished truth", the son of a former Kenyan goat-herder has come to embody the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans.

Mr Obama's inspirational rhetoric at the Democrat Convention, where he called for party unity and emphasised the traditional American ideals of self-reliance and aspiration, proved to be the making of him. The Illinois politician had good reason to appreciate the possibilities he saw the US as representing. Unlike members of the Bush family and the Kennedy clan, he had no privileged background or natural springboard into politics.

His father, Barack Obama Sr, grew up in Kenya herding goats, and met his mother, Ann Dunham, when he won a university scholarship to study in Hawaii where they were both students. They married, and Barack Jr was born on August 4, , in Honolulu. While he was still a toddler his father left the family to study at Harvard.

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Barack Sr later returned to Kenya where, having divorced Ann, he remarried and worked as a government economist. The couple would meet only once again before he died in a car crash. When her son was six, Kansas-born Ann married Indonesian Lolo Soetoro and relocated the family to Jakarta where the youngster lived for four years before moving back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents and attend school.