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 ...

Obama biographer David Garrow discusses the 44th president's missteps on foreign policy and how he inadvertently helped Donald Trump's political rise.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...