Destiny Calling: How the People Elected Barack Obama

by Charles Madigan

Book Overview

On a bitter cold day in 2007-nearly 150 years after Abraham Lincoln's inauguration-United States Senator Barack Obama of Illinois gathered his supporters at the old state capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Very new to the national political arena, he made an audacious announcement: "If you feel destiny calling, and see as I see, a future of endless possibility stretching before us; if you sense, as I sense, that the time is now to shake off our slumber,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566637783
• ISBN13: 9781566637787
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 3 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 12