In his memoir, Barack Obama discusses his childhood in Honolulu and Chicago up until his entry into Harvard Law School in 1988. Born to a Black African father and white American mother, Obama recounts his emotional journey as he travels to Kenya and discovers who his father was as a man.

Obama won the U.S. Senate Democratic primary in Illinois in 2004 and began his presidential campaign in 2007. Obama was the first African American president of the United States, from 2009-2017. During his presidency, Obama diversified the federal bureaucracy, revived the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, and passed health care reform.

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