By Jane Sutcliffe
Describes the lifetime of our forty fourth president from his start to a mom from Kansas and a father from Kenya, via his adolescence, and school years, and his paintings as a neighborhood organizer in Chicago to his access into politics as a country senator and his meteoric upward thrust to the presidency and inauguration because the first African American U.S. president.
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