No thanks, I've read Marx and Engels already

Sure, I'm in. Either Obama book will do. I guess it's time I read up on Obama.


You know what saddens me? It's that neither of Obama's parents lived to see him president. Nor his grandmother, who was very important to him. Obama is still young, they should've been alive still.

Bush was born with a silver spoon, it is not extroardinary that he became president. Obama, like him or not, is a more unlikely story, a personal marvel. Yet none of his forebears are alive to witness it. His children are too young. They will grow up thinking it completely normal that their father is president. I would feel awfully alone if I were Obama.

Clinton, Sarkozy and Obama. All three are unlikely presidents. Self-made men, lawyers - law as an emancipatory study - all three raised mostly by their grandparents, all three with absent fathers whose very absense seems to have had a crucial impact on their ambition. I wouldn't mind a prosopography about these three men.
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