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In his new memoir, Obama defends — and critiques — his legacy

Former President Barack Obama has written three books now. And all three read like they were written by different people, probably because he was a different man when he wrote each of them.

He published his memoir Dreams of My Father in 1995, when he was in his 30s and had not yet run for any political office. It’s the book of a young activist with a point to make and literary gifts aplenty: rich with evocative language, and flavored by a certain amount of world-weary cynicism. This young Obama sees a broken world and has committed himself to working to heal it, but remains uncertain that he will ever make any substantive change.

And he is willing to be vulnerable with his readers. The title Dreams of My Father isn’t a bit of sentimental fluff; he actually takes us into his mind to tell us about a literal dream he had as a young man about his absent father, in which his father exclaims at how tall he’s grown and says, “Barack. I always wanted to tell you how much I love you,” and Obama in response begins to weep with shame.

Reading it now, it feels like a shockingly intimate moment. I know this person the way I know a character in a book, more closely than you can ever k

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Cody Delistraty | Longreads | May 2017 | 12 minutes (3,333 words)

There are few subjects in contemporary history who deserve a 1,400-page biography, but Barack Obama’s ascendance to the presidency merits every word. Deeply researched over nine years — with over a thousand interviews and many never-before-seen documents — David J. Garrow’s Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama covers 44’s life to date: his youth in Hawaii and Indonesia, community organizing in Illinois, his impressive work as a Harvard Law student, and his pursuit of politics as a profession in Chicago. All the while, Garrow shows, Obama was both being shaped and thoughtfully crafting himself, turning himself from the bright, jocular kid at Punahou School in Hawaii into one of the most revolutionary, exciting presidents of the modern era.

Garrow is a Professor of Law and History, and a Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh. He holds a Ph.D. from Duke University, and has written several nonfiction books, including Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr., and Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Vot

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