Thu Jan 22 23:13:59 2009 UTClccn-n94-112934Racially mixed people--United StatesLegislators--United StatesAfrican American legislators0.470.470.85United_States_Senate_career_of_Barack_ObamaBarack_Obaman 94112934oca03725304aObama, BarackObama, BarryObamy, BarackaObama, Barack Hussein,IISoetoro, Barryאובאמה, ברקObamah, Baraḳlccn-n79-22161United StatesCongressSenatelccn-n88-42020C-SPAN (Television network)lccn-nr91-3214McCain, John1936-ivelccn-n93-10903Clinton, Hillary Rodhamlccn-n79-54058Democratic Party (U.S.)lccn-n80-16125Biden, Joseph R.lccn-n2008-54754Obama, Michelle1964-lccn-no2007-118899Mendell, Davidlccn-no95-49848Bush, George W.(George Walker)1946-lccn-no97-50046Richardson, Bill1947 Nov. 15-Obama, BarackObama, Barack600Television specialsCampaign speechesIllinoisPolitical campaignsCase studiesReligion and politicsReligionAfricaTravelDocumentary filmsCompact discsWomen lawyersBiographical television programsAfrican American womenAfrican American women lawyersLegislators' spousesAfrican American leadershipAfrican Americans--Social conditionsPolitical culturePictorial worksAfrican Americans--Politics and governmentQuotationsPolitical planningCampaign speechesSound recordingsIllinois--ChicagoLarge type booksLeft-wing extremistsRight and left (Political science)Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)African Americans--Public opinionAudiobooksJuvenile worksRace relations--Political aspectsPublic opinionPolitical and social viewsRacismRace relationsAfrican AmericansPresidents--ElectionIdeals (Philosophy)National characteristics, AmericanPhilosophyPresidential candidatesRacially mixed peopleUnited States.--Congress.--SenateLegislatorsAfrican American legislatorsPolitical scienceBiographyUnited StatesObama, Barack199519961998200120042005200620072008200961414book973.04960730092e185.97.o23ocn2769477732864510אובמה, ברקОбама, Баракオバマ40566740109ocn071312726sw070842248:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2006Obama, Barack

Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics--a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of our democracy. He explores those forces--from the fear of losing, to the perpetual need to raise money, to the power of the media--that can stifle even the best-intentioned politician. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families, the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and the transnational threats--from terrorism to pandemic--that gather beyond our shores. And he grapples with the role that faith plays in a democracy. Only by returning to the principles that gave birth to our Constitution, he says, can Americans repair a broken political process, and restore to working order a government dangerously out of touch with millions of ordinary Americans.--From publisher description.

03072376993721587977ocn055534889sw031657921:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook20040.47Obama, Barack

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father₇a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man₇has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey₇first 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 father₂s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.

140008277382285410ocn237886808sw237886808:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Obama, Barack

At this defining moment in our history, Americans are hungry for change. After years of failed policies and failed politics from Washington, this is our chance to reclaim the American dream. Barack Obama has proven to be a new kind of leader&#8211;one who can bring people together, be honest about the challenges we face, and move this nation forward. <i>Change We Can Believe In</i> outlines his vision for America...

4314337ocn099995816sw099995816:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2007Obama, Barack2662662ocn173852886sw173852886:lccn-n94-112934Falsevisu2007Documentary

Senator Barak Obama travels to the land of his ancestry. From South Africa to Kenya to a Darfur refugee camp in Chad, Obama explores the vast continent that is gaining increasing importance in this age of globalization.

1991992ocn243706774sw243706774:lccn-n94-112934Falsercrd2008Obama, Barack1921921ocn071146344sw071146344:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook200619327718671741742ocn229029271sw229029271:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Obama, Barack1711723ocn106752806sw106752806:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2007Obama, Barack18807802911391392ocn250022433sw250022433:lccn-n94-112934Falsercrd200872722ocn259491444sw259491444:lccn-n94-112934Falsevisu2008Documentary videos

A collection of some of Obama's speeches showing his ideas for change and hope.

61613ocn227326794sw227326794:lccn-n94-112934Falsercrd2008Obama, Barack

Dreams from my father : In 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.

35352ocn223410182sw223410182:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Obama, Barack16163ocn166924974sw070964173:lccn-n94-112934Falsevisu2006

"Is the U.S. so divided into communities of the like-minded that people have stopped hearing any political opinion that differs from their own? This program reported by ABC News' George Stephanopoulos explores the polarizing phenomenon known as "the big sort" and how that detrimental force is reshaping activism, influencing the media, and suppressing bipartisan discourse in Congress."

13131ocn220463762sw220463762:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Obama, Barack11142ocn180738463sw180738463:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2007Obama, Barack11111ocn056495895sw056481045:lccn-n94-112934Falsevisu20040.85

On the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Boston, MA, party leaders, former presidential candidates, and others speak about Senator John Kerry's candidacy and building unity and patriotism within the party. Illinois State Senator Barack Obama gives the keynote speech in which he discusses his background and the goals and aspirations of the party. Teresa Heinz Kerry highlights the evening's speeches with an endorsement of her husband's presidency and her thoughts on public policy. Other speakers include: Nubia Smith Whitaker, Benjamin McKenzie, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Maya Angelou, Mike Honda, James Forbes, Jr., Jeanne Shaheen, Robert Caro, Edward Kennedy, Richard Gephardt, Thomas Daschle, Carol Moseley Braun, Howard Dean, Christie Vilsack, Dick Durbin, James Langevin, Ron Reagan, Ilana Wexler, Chris Heinz, and Yahya Hendi.

771ocn061689072sw056198609:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook20050.60Speeches, addresses, etc., American

Web site based on the American RadioWorks documentary, featuring a selection of great African American speeches. The full transcript of the documentary may be read online or downloaded in streaming audio format. Selected speeches, with background information and transcripts, are also available for listening.

662ocn265303721sw265303721:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Obama, Barack662ocn212432691sw212432691:lccn-n94-112934Falsevisu2008

Presidential candidate Barack Obama tells Steve Kroft he can beat the Republican candidate in November, no matter how tough the opponent. Obama says his campaign has gotten American voters "organized and excited, not just about me, but about the process, and about getting involved in politics".

1342158310ocn164217624sw164217624:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2007Mendell, David

A journalist who has covered the senator and presidential candidate since his campaign for the Senate offers a portrait that features his childhood and youth in Hawaii and his embrace of seemingly ruthless campaign tactics.

115434806ocn243941633sw243941633:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Corsi, Jerome R

Barack Obama stepped onto the national political stage when the then-Illinois State senator addressed the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Soon after Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, author Jerome Corsi began researching Obama's personal and political background. This book is the result of that research. By tracing Obama's career and influences from his early years in Hawaii and Indonesia, the beginnings of his political career in Chicago, his voting record in the Illinois legislature, his religious training and his adoption of Christianity through to his recent involvement in Kenyan politics, his political advisors and fundraising associates and his meteoric campaign for president, Corsi shows that an Obama presidency would, in his words, be "a repeat of the failed extremist politics that have characterized and plagued Democratic Party politics since the late 1960s."--From publisher description.

103722388ocn168714128sw168714128:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Steele, Shelby

Award-winning author Steele attests that Senator Barack Obama's groundbreaking quest for the highest office in the land is fast becoming a galvanizing occasion beyond mere presidential politics, one that is forcing a national dialogue on the current state of race relations in America. Says Steele, poverty and inequality usually are the focus of such dialogues, but Obama's bid for so high an office pushes the conversation to a more abstract level where race is a politics of guilt and innocence generated by our painful racial history--a kind of morality play between (and within) the races in which innocence is power and guilt is impotence. Steele maintains that Obama is caught between the two classic postures that blacks have always used to make their way in the white American mainstream: bargaining and challenging; and proposes a way for him to break these bonds and find his own voice.--From publisher description.

140010603694910153ocn231580337sw231580337:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Freddoso, David

Has any major candidate for president of the United States ever received less critical examination than Barack Obama? How did someone with the most liberal voting record in the U.S. Senate and long-standing relationships with a former terrorist, a racist minister, and the corrupt operators of Chicago machine politics end up as a supposed beacon of a newer, cleaner, bipartisan politics? Posing the hard questions that Obama needs to answer, investigative reporter Freddoso reveals a politician as calculating as any other, a far-left Democrat who goes beyond "abortion rights" to supporting de facto infanticide, whose "new politics" amount to Chicago-style hardball overlain with lofty rhetoric, and who, from his positions of power, has helped his patrons.--From publisher description.

9329575ocn156845861sw156845861:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Dupuis, Martin7907903ocn232127364sw232127364:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Mundy, Liza

Washington Post writer Liza Mundy paints a revealing and intimate portrait of the most dynamic couple in politics today: Michelle, the highly organized, sometimes intimidating, list-making pragmatist; and Barack, the introspective political charmer who shoots for the stars. Michelle's story carries all the achievements and lingering pain of the post-civil rights era. She grew up on the south side of Chicago, in a neighborhood rocked by white flight. She went to Harvard Law School, became a corporate lawyer, then left to train community leaders. She can be funny and sharp-tongued, warm and blunt, empathic and demanding. Her relationship with Barack, like many couples with two careers and two children, has been strained at times by his political climb. In this carefully reported biography, drawing upon interviews with more than one hundred people, including one with Michelle herself, Mundy captures the complexity of this remarkable woman and the remarkable life she has lived.--From publisher description.

72914582ocn174112694sw174112694:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Wilson, John K7227292ocn060664299sw060664299:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook20060.15Brill, Marlene Targ08225341776988703ocn232161697sw082368896:lccn-n94-112934Falsevisu2008Biographical television programs

Follow Obama 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 towards the 2008 Democratic Convention.

5855852ocn209711455sw209711455:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Grimes, Nikki

Ever since Barack Obama was young, Hope has lived inside him. From the beaches of Hawaii to the streets of Chicago, from the jungles of Indonesia to the plains of Kenya, he has held on to Hope. Even as a boy, Barack knew he wasn't quite like anybody else, but through his journeys he found the ability to listen to Hope and become what he was meant to be: a bridge to bring people together. -http://www.booksinprint.com

4924932ocn131063337sw131063337:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Sapet, Kerrily15993504594849684ocn185026528sw185026528:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Jones, Ricky L4754751ocn070335008sw070335008:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2007Devaney, Sherri159018937X4624782ocn228369665sw228369665:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Mansfield, Stephen

Mansfield presents an insightful portrait of Obama that shows how his faith motivates him as a Senator and as a Presidential candidate.

4594592ocn145431670sw145431670:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Davis, William

Profiles the Harvard Law School graduate, legislator, and civil rights lawyer who is known for his work on voting rights and employment discrimination cases and who, in 2007, declared that he would run for president of the United States.

4564908ocn083265104sw083265104:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2007Dougherty, Steve

[An] overview of Barack Obama's life, this ... book relates the story of his difficult childhood as the son of a Kansas-born mother and a black Kenyan who abandoned the family, through his election to president of the Harvard Law Review ...; his early political career; his own family life with his wife, Michelle, and two daughters; his 2004 election to U.S. Senator; and his emergence as a symbol of hope for America. Including Obama's own words and comments from both his critand adn supporters, [this book] is essential reading for people curious to know about the man being talked about as a candidate for our highest office. -Back cover.

15791275684294291ocn243548754sw243548754:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Life Books (Firm)

The editors of LIFE Books have collected a richly illustrated biography of presidential candidate Barack Obama. This work includes intimate pictures from Obama's childhood and his time as editor of Harvard's Law Review, and culminates with the historic Democratic National Convention.

3943941ocn234449172sw234449172:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Kuttner, Robert

Invoking America's greatest leaders, Robert Kuttner explains how Obama must be a transformative president--or a failed one--a president who must succeed in fundamentally changing our economy, society, and democracy for the better.

3423442ocn137331494sw137331494:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Schuman, Michael

"Explores the life of Barack Obama, U.S. Senator from Illinois, and his work as a community organizer, lawyer, and politician"--Provided by publisher.

3226442ocn223919622sw223919622:lccn-n94-112934Falsebook2008Souza, Pete

Photojournalist Pete Souza documents the meteoric rise of the charismatic Barack Obama from his first day in the U.S. Senate up to the Pennsylvania presidential primary. Souza, who also accompanied the senator to seven countries including Kenya, South Africa, and Russia, had access to photograph the senator and presidential candidate in private and public moments during Obama's rise to political stardom. Most of these have not been seen before. Souza provides extended commentary about each photo to place it in context, and describe the scene and participants.--From publisher description.

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