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 ...

In “Barack Obama: The Story,” David Maraniss has written a global, multigenerational saga that culminates in the emergence of a young man who is knowable, recognizable and real.

"Barack Obama: The Story," by David Maraniss, which comes out June 19, discusses the president's early education in Jakarta as well as his years in Hawaii, in college, and beyond.

In a new book Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize winner David J. Garrow documents the formative years of the 44th president. While the 1,460-page haute-tabloid tome came under ...

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. Remnick interviewed Obama, along ...

In his memoir A Promised Land, Obama tells the story of his political rise through the first two years of his presidency. Here, listen to excerpts from the book before its release on Tuesday.

Twelve years ago, Barack Obama introduced himself to America as just a skinny kid with a funny name. He made his story into the American story—a tale of immigrant hopes, of opportunities, of ...

A new biography that traces Barack Obama's path from birth - yes, in Hawaii - to Harvard Law School, sketches the pragmatism and politics of the future president's early choices, ...