A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman
who most singularly shaped Barack Obama.his mother.


Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is known
about Stanley Ann Dunham, the fiercely independent woman who raised him,
the person he credits for, as he says, "what is best in me."
Here is the missing piece of the story.

Award-winning reporter Janny Scott interviewed nearly two hundred of
Dunham's friends, colleagues, and relatives (including both her children),
and combed through boxes of personal and professional papers, letters to
friends, and photo albums, to uncover the full breadth of this woman's
inspiring and untraditional life, and to show the remarkable extent to
which she shaped the man Obama is today.

Dunham's story moves from Kansas and Washington state to Hawaii and
Indonesia. It begins in a time when interracial marriage was still
a felony in much of the United States, and culminates in the present, with
her son as our president . something she never got to see. It is a poignant
look at how character is passed from parent to child, and offers insight
into how Obama's destiny was created early, by his mother's extraordinary
faith in his gifts, and by her unconventional mothering. Finally, it is
a heartbreaking story of a woman who died at age 52, before her son would
go on to his greatest accomplishments and reflections of what she taught
him.

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