Barack Obama

The son of a black African father and a white American mother, this is Obama's personal odyssey. He follows his mother's family from Kansas, to Hawaii and then Indonesia. He visits Kenya to confront the truth of his father's life, and reconciles his divided inheritance. This is an abridged recording by the author.

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making - from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy. Obama takes us on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism, to the watershed night of November 4th 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation's highest office.