ID3 1TALB Singular WomanTPE1 Janny Scott/January LaVoyTCOP Penguin AudioTCON Biography & AutobiographyTIT2 Singular Woman - Part 1TRCK 1COMM ENG
A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama-his mother.Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is known about Stanley Ann Dunham, the fiercely independent woman who raised him, the person he credits for, as he says, "what is best in me." Here is the missing piece of the story.Award-winning reporter Janny Scott interviewed nearly two hundred of Dunham's friends, colleagues, and relatives (including both her children), and combed through boxes of personal and professional papers, letters to friends, and photo albums, to uncover the full breadth of this woman's inspiring and untraditional life, and to show the remarkable extent to which she shaped the man Obama is today.Dunham's story moves from Kansas and Washington state to Hawaii and Indonesia. It begins in a time when interracial marriage was still a felony in much of the United States, and culminates in the present, with her son...TLEN 000000120033Pd i 4 gewZ $kd 7O&Qui&{xY9ɓOa鳐Cu ? ?"4cEu 4'Zfh\s!<ͮ z}Gxq~,,)ajC8GRdV i 4 Oaٙ@`K >xe"zg+I8f_wHC zOnmo̻ޢ$u9g;:՟ʶ %[0z\ jh`,\싰:JLhX|;][E<Iu [dlFۣUhRd i nr Yur{Igz}|gbjg%Z.@[sq~|zSĸP5>&J