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.

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, ...

The young Obama he shows in the mammoth Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (William Morrow, 1,078 pp., *** out of four stars) is a magnetic but calculating shape shifter who nursed ...