Barack Obama: An American Story by Roberta Edwards
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Book Summary Author: Roberta Edwards Illustrator: Ken Call Edition: Mass Market Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2007-08-16 ISBN: 0448447991 Number of pages: 48 Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap |
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Book Reviews of the Barack Obama: An American Story
Customer Review: Nothing about Senator Obama's religion. Otherwise a workmanly children's book.
Summary: 3 Stars
Roberta Edwards is a prolific writer -- unless several authors have the same name! Her titles range from INTRODUCING CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY through FIVE SILLY FISHERMEN and SPACE KID to 2008's 48 page children's biography: BARACK OBAMA: AN AMERICAN STORY.
Half or more of those 48 pages are well presented sketches, photos or maps. I suspect that there are many children from ages eight to 14 who would enjoy the book. For adults almost totally unfamiliar with the U.S. Senator from Illinois (if such there be!), Ms Robert's book need not take up more than ten minutes of skimming. There are no big words. There is, to my surprise, no treatment of religion -- anybody's religion. But there is much about race and the white and black ancestors of Barack Obama.
High points of the Senator's life to date include being first black American chosen to be president of the Harvard Law Review, his 2004 keynote address to the Democratic National Convention, being sworn in as a U.S. Senator in 2005 by Vice President Richard Cheney and a vigorous campaign for President of the USA which began in February 2007.
I am glad I read the book. It is unpretentious, skillfully put together, succinct and well illustrated. -OOO-