Barack Obama in Hawai'i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President

by Dinesh Sharma

Book Overview

Distinguishing itself from the mass of political biographies of Barack Obama, this first interdisciplinary study of Obama's Indonesian and Hawai'ian years examines their effect on his adult character, political identity, and global world-view.

The first 18 years of President Obama's life, from his birth in 1961 to his departure for college in 1979, were spent in Hawai'i and Indonesia. These years fundamentally shaped the traits for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313385335
• ISBN13: 9780313385339
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"