Barack Obama the Trailblazer: fascinating biography of America's first black president.

By Dr. Olusola Coker

This book tells the story of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America.
You will learn about Barack Obama's life and career in this book.
Barack Obama's biography is fascinating, and his wife, Michelle Obama, played a key role in his political career.
As genuine father of the nation, we've watched President Obama lead the United States through huge challenges, console in times of grief and loss, celebrate in hard-won victories, and set a singular example of "being kind and being useful," as he would tell his daughters.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Feb 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9781678107451

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Barack Obama the trailblazer.

fascinating biography of America's first black president.

Dr. Olusola  Coker.

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Table of Content

Introduction.

Chapter One.

Chapter Two.

Chapter Three.

Chapter Four.

Chapter Five.

Chapter Six.

Chapter Seven.

Chapter Eight.

Contact Us.

Introduction.

This book tells the story of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America.

You will learn about Barack Obama's life and career in this book.

Barack Obama's biography is fascinating, and his wife, Michelle Obama, played a key role in his political career.

As genuine father of the nation, we've watched President Obama lead the United States through huge challenges, console in times of grief and loss, celebrate in hard-won victories, and set a singular example of being kind and being useful, as he would tell his daughters.

Chapter One.

Biography One of Barack Obama

President of the United States.

Birth,childhood,education,political career and marriage of barrack obama.

Barack Hussein Obama II, 44th President of the United States (2009–17), was the first African American to hold the office. He was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Obama served in the United States Senate from 2005 to 2008, representing Illinois.

Since the end of Reconstruction, he was the third African American to be elected to that body (1877).

He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 "for his outstanding efforts to improve international diplomacy and people-to-people interaction.

Inauguration of Barack Obama

Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009, alongside his wife, Michelle.

such as how the former president met his parents, the false birther allegations regarding his country of origin, and his boyhood experiences in Indonesia, to name a few.

Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr., grew up as a young goatherd in rural Kenya, got a scholarship to study in the United States, and finally rose through the Kenyan government ranks to become a senior economist.

S. Ann Dunham, Obama's mother, grew up in Kansas, Texas, and Washington state before settling in Honolulu with her family.

She and Barack Sr. met in a University of Hawaii Russian language class in 1960 and married less than a year later.

Barack Sr. departed to study at Harvard University when Obama was two years old, and Ann and Barack Sr. separated shortly after.

(Obama only saw his father once again, during a brief visit when he was ten years old.)

Ann later remarried, this time to another international student from Indonesia, Lolo Soetoro, with whom she had a second child, Maya.

Obama lived in Jakarta with his half sister, mother, and stepfather for several years.

Obama attended a government-run school where he received some Islamic education and a Catholic private school where he received Christian education.

In 1971, he returned to Hawaii and lived in a small apartment with his grandparents and mother (she stayed in Indonesia for a while, returned to Hawaii, and then went abroad again—partly to work on a Ph.D.—before divorcing Soetoro in 1980).

His mother used government food handouts for a short time, although the family usually lived in the middle class.

Obama graduated from Punahou School, a prestigious college preparatory school in Honolulu, in 1979.

Obama spent two years at Occidental College in suburban Los Angeles before transferring to Columbia University in New York City to earn a bachelor's degree in political science in 1983.

Obama grew intellectually at college and for a few years afterward, influenced by professors who pushed him to take his studies more seriously.

He lived an ascetic life, reading books by William Shakespeare, Friedrich Nietzsche, Toni Morrison, and others.

After working for a few years as a writer and editor for Business International Corp., a Manhattan-based research, publishing, and consulting organization, he moved to Chicago's predominantly destitute Far South Side in 1985 to work as a community organizer.

He returned to Harvard University's law school three years later, graduating magna cum laude in 1991 and became the first African American to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review.

Obama met Michelle Robinson, a Chicago native, while working as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm Sidley Austin in 1989.

In 1992, they tied the knot.

Obama moved to Chicago after earning his law degree and became involved in the Democratic Party.

Project Vote, a voter registration operation that helped Democrat Bill Clinton win Illinois and the president in 1992, is credited with registering tens of thousands of African Americans.

Carol Moseley Braun, an Illinois state politician, became the first African American woman elected to the United States Senate as a result of the endeavor.

Obama wrote and released his first book at this time.

Dreams from My Father (1995) is a memoir about Obama's quest for multiracial identity via the lives of his now-deceased father and extended family in Kenya.

Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago and practiced civil rights law as an attorney.

Barack Obama's political career and ascension to the president

He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, where he was instrumental in passing legislation that tightened campaign finance restrictions, expanded health insurance to low-income families, and altered criminal justice and welfare laws, among other things.

In 2004, he was elected to the United States Senate, defeating Republican Alan Keyes in the first U.S. Senate campaign with two African-American candidates.

Obama received global attention while campaigning for the United States Senate by delivering the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004.

The address intertwined Obama's personal biography with the concept that all Americans are related in ways that transcend political, cultural, and geographic divisions.

The speech catapulted Obama's formerly unknown memoir onto best-seller lists, and he soon rose to prominence in his party after taking office the following year.

In August 2006, a journey to Kenya to visit his father's home drew international attention, and Obama's profile continued to rise.

His second book, The Audacity of Hope (2006), a mainstream polemic on his vision for the United States, was released just a few weeks later and became an instant best seller.

In February 2007, he launched his candidacy for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2008 at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln had served as a state senator.

Many Democrats, particularly young and minority voters, were moved by Obama's personal charm, passionate oratory, and his promise to reform the political system.

On January 3, 2008, Obama defeated Sen. Hillary Clinton, the overwhelming favorite to win the nomination, in the first major nominating contest, the Iowa caucus.

However, Obama finished second to Clinton in the New Hampshire primary five days later, igniting a bruising—and at times bitter—primary battle.

On Super Tuesday, February 5, Obama won more than a dozen states, including his home state of Illinois and Missouri, a longtime electoral bellwether.

However, because Clinton won numerous states with big populations, such as California and New York, there was no clear front-runner for the nomination.

Later in the month, Obama had an astonishing streak of victories, easily sweeping the 11 primaries and caucuses that followed Super Tuesday, giving him a substantial lead in pledged delegates.

When Clinton secured big victories in Ohio and Texas in early March, his momentum paused.

Obama lost the crucial Pennsylvania vote on