A new biography of President Obama provides a rare glimpse of him as a young adult. In Barack Obama: The Story, journalist David Maraniss chronicles the president's "classic search for home." AP ...

Media Obama biographer on where the ex-president failed at home and abroad, and how he may have helped Donald Trump Obama's foreign policy has a 'legacy of failure,' David Garrow says ...

President Barack Obama. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster (CBS News) A new biography excerpted Friday in the Washington Post sheds light on some of President Obama's formative experiences coming to terms ...

Barack Obama. The Story. David Maraniss. Simon & Schuster: 643 pp., $32.50. Abnormal men become presidents of the United States. The overweening self-confidence required to reach for the office ...

Tablet’s lengthy Q&A with David Garrow, who wrote the 2017 biography "Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama," has stunned social media with fascinating claims about the former president.

That makes writing about first ladies a challenge for any biographer. But in Michelle Obama: A Life (***½ out of four), Peter Slevin, a former Washington Post reporter who's now a professor at ...

The Obama biography will be entitled, "The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama"; it opens with candidate Obama at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

David J. Garrow's 2017 biography of Obama, "Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama," touched on how the duo's essay cited Trump as a kind of unattainable level of wealth and success that the ...

Scott pointedly notes: “The president’s mother has served as any of a number of useful oversimplifications. In the capsule version of Obama’s life story, she is the white woman from Kansas ...

“Michelle Obama: A Life” sets out to be the definitive historical biography of the First Lady. The 432-page hardcover tome was a true labor of love for Peter Slevin, a first time author who ...