Barack Obama, the New Face of America

by Martin Dupuis and Keith Boeckelman

Book Overview

The roots of President Obama's politics and presidential campaign strategy are traced in this up-to-the-minute political biography. The work chronicles his career from his successful run in 1996 to represent Chicago's South Side in the Illinois Senate to his failed challenge in 2000 to the South Side's incumbent in the U.S. House to this partial term as the junior U.S. senator from Illinois beginning in 2004 and finally to his landslide election to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313377847
• ISBN13: 9780313377846
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"