Barack Obama: A Biography

Title: Barack Obama: A Biography
Author(s): Joann F. Price
Publisher: Greenwood
Date: 2008
Pages: 166
Size: 1.15 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Barack Obama says that his story could only take place in America, and this revealing biography traces the events of his remarkable life thus far. From his upbringing in humble circumstances in Hawaii and Indonesia to becoming the fifth African American senator in U.S. history, and later, a presidential candidate. This well-researched volume highlights the hardships and successes, the people who most influenced his career, his personal life, and his meteoric rise to pop icon status. Rounded out with photos, a timeline, a bibliography, and an index, this volume is a must-read for high school and undergraduate students of current events and political science.

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Barack Obama: Road to the President

Title: The Road to the President
Editors(s): George Clack, Anita N. Green and others
Date: 2008
Pages: 47
Size: 13.8 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Barack Obama is the among the youngest U.S. presidents. Born at the tail end of the 1946-1964 baby boom generation, he is also the first president to have come of age in the 1980s, which of itself might portend change. The atmosphere in which he grew up was markedly different from the socially tumultuous 1960s that shaped earlier baby boomers’ outlook. [+/-]

As Obama once said about the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, contested by candidates from a much earlier cohort of that postwar generation, “I sometimes felt as if I were watching the psychodrama of the baby boom generation – a tale rooted in old grudges and revenge plots hatched on a handful of college campuses long ago – played out on the national stage.”

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Barack Obama: the President's Inaugural Address (Trantscript+Audio+VDO)

Title: President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address
Compiled by: O'Mama
Date: January 20, 2009
Size: 57.4 Mb
Format: PDF + MP3 + .flv
Quality: High
Language: American English

At 12:00 noon on Inauguration Day 2009 (Tuesday, January 20, 2009 -- the date and time are defined by the Twentieth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution), Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States and the nation's first African-American president. Read, listen and watch Barack Obama's Inaugural Address.

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Barack Obama: Victory Speech (Transcript+Audio+VDO)

Title: Barack Obama's Victory Speech
Compiled by: O'Mama
Date: November 4, 2008
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Quality: High
Language: American English

Read, listen and watch President Barack Obama's historic victory speech. On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama spoke to thousands of supporters and to the world at Chicago’s Grant Park, giving an historic victory speech after being named the first African-American president-elect of the United States. You shouldn't miss this collection.

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Barack Obama: Speech on VOA (Transcript+Audio)

Title: Obama's Speech on VOA
Compiled by: O'Mama
Publisher: www.voanews.com
Date: November 3, 2008
Pages: 3
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Format: PDF + MP3
Quality: High
Language: American English

Practice your listening skills with VOA news on Obama's Election Victory. English with a limited vocabulary spoken at a slower than normal speed. (15 mins)

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Barack Obama: Say It Like Obama

Title: Say It Like Obama: The Power of Speaking with Purpose and Vision
Author(s): Shel Leanne
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Date: 2008
Pages: 242
Size: 1.27 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

In speech after speech, Barack Obama has “fired up” millions of enthusiastic supporters with his inspiring vision, rousing rhetoric, and charismatic presence His outstanding communication skills gave rise to an unprecedented political movement and fueled Obama’s success in becoming the first African American presidential nominee of a major U.S. political party. [+/-]

But inspiring and persuading millions isn’t simply a product of innate ability—Barack Obama honed techniques that made him a highly effective speaker before audiences numbering thirty to 200,000. These techniques are vital not only in the political arena, but also for business executives, managers, and leaders from all walks of life.

This book is about the art of persuasion, the power of presentation, and the most effective techniques of communication. From building strong arguments and facing tough issues to inspiring a team or workforce to new levels of innovation and productivity, Say It Like Obama gives you the tools you can use to instill positive change at every level of your organization by learning how to:

• Make a strong first impression
• Use body language and voice
• Establish common ground
• Gain trust and confidence
• Win hearts and minds
• Drive your points home
• Convey your vision through imagery and words that resonate
• Build to a crescendo and leave a lasting impression

Whether you’re a manager, executive, or public speaker, a teacher, business owner, or community leader, Say It Like Obama will provide youwith presentation techniques that have inspired and mobilized audiences of every size.

About the author
Shel Leanne is President of the Wishel Corporation, a leadership development firm whose clients include Fortune 500 businesses across the world. Prior to launching her company, Leanne gained experience working for McKinsey & Company and for Morgan Stanley in New York and London. She subsequently served as a full faculty member at Harvard University from 1997 to 2001, where she taught courses on social entrepreneurship and organizational design. She is also the author of How to Interview Like a Top MBA.

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Barack Obama: The New Face of American Politics

Title: Barack Obama, the New Face of American Politics
Author(s): Martin Dupuis and Keith Boeckelman
Publisher: Praeger
Date: 2007
Pages: 183
Size: 1.45 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Barack Obama's election to the U.S. Senate in 2004 is one of the most interesting and colorful political campaigns in recent history. His rousing keynote address at the Democratic National Convention that same year made his name a household word. The "Obama for Illinois" crusade offers important insights into American politics. The authors explore the role of money, political party, ethnicity, religion, and the issues facing our society today. Obama's straightforward policy recommendations, message of hope and inclusion, and charismatic style propelled him to the national spotlight. Obama has the potential to shape America and to reshape U.S. politics as he campaigns for the White House. [+/-]

Obama's state senate career and his decision to enter the U.S. Senate race are examined in this book. Despite a primary field of six competitors, Obama received more than half of the Democratic vote, defeating a multimillionaire and the state comptroller, a well-known figure in the Democratic Party. The general election imploded for the Republicans in the first few weeks of the campaign when it was revealed that their candidate was embroiled in a sex scandal. Alan Keyes, the ultraconservative, outspoken African American who had run for president twice and for the U.S. Senate from Maryland, was recruited to challenge Obama. But Obama, whose skill with the media and whose ability to raise funds was evident even in those early days of his career, easily won the race with 70 percent of the vote. The authors analyze Obama's ability to speak to the concerns of multiple constituencies by appealing to a coalition of voters that transcends race, class, and gender. At the start of his presidential run, Obama gives new meaning to the American dream.

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Barack Obama: The Postmodern Coup

Title: OBAMA - The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate
Author(s): Webster Griffin Tarpley
Contributor(s): Bruce Marshall, Jonathan Mowat
Publisher: Progressive Press
Date: 2008, 2nd Revised Edition
Pages: 291
Size: 1.62 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Politicians do the opposite of what they promise, so look at the policies of their advisors. In "Obama: the Postmodern Coup," we discover that Obama's policymakers are far right-wingers! Zbigniew Brzezinski is CEO of the BHO show. He is an even madder Dr. Strangelove than Kissinger, who wants to take on Russia and China, and provoke right-wing coups everywhere. [+/-]

On the economy, it's regressive Skull & Bones figures like Austan Goolsbee. In military affairs, Gen. McPeak, the perpetrator of genocidal civilian bombing tactics. Obama's backers make a laundry-list of the elite: the Rockefellers, Rand Corp., CFR, and the Ford Foundation all over. That's why he gets the lion's share of corporate campaign financing and a free ride from the media. If you thought it couldn't get worse than Bush and Cheney, watch out. Hitler's very slogans were "Hope" and "Change." The agenda behind Obama is tragedy for the hard-pressed people of America and the World.

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Barack Obama: Dreams from My Father (Book+AudioBook)

Title: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Author(s): Barack Obama
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Date: 2004
Pages: 236
Size: 129 Mb
Format: PDF + MP3 (6CDs)
Quality: High
Language: American English

Elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama was offered a book contract, but the intellectual journey he planned to recount became instead this poignant, probing memoir of an unusual life. Born in 1961 to a white American woman and a black Kenyan student, Obama was reared in Hawaii by his mother and her parents, his father having left for further study and a return home to Africa. [+/-]

So Obama's not-unhappy youth is nevertheless a lonely voyage to racial identity, tensions in school, struggling with black literature, with one month-long visit when he was 10 from his commanding father. After college, Obama became a community organizer in Chicago. He slowly found place and purpose among folks of similar hue but different memory, winning enough small victories to commit himself to the work. He's now a civil rights lawyer there. Before going to law school, he finally visited Kenya; with his father dead, he still confronted obligation and loss, and found wellsprings of love and attachment. Obama leaves some lingering questions -- his mother is virtually absent - but still has written a resonant boo.

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Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope (Book+Audiobook)

Title: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Author(s): Barack Obama
Publisher: Crown, New York
Date: 2006, 1st Edition
Pages: 217
Size: 116 Mb
Format: PDF + MP3
Quality: High
Language: American English

Echoing themes he sounded in his extraordinary keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Senator Barack Obama speaks in this book to Americans of all stripes who are weary of the smallness of U.S.politics today, and who long for something rooted in the faith and decency of the American Dream. [+/-]

In The Audacity of Hope he draws on his experience as a senator and lawyer, a professor and father, a Christian and a skeptic, to illuminate the greatness of America's original ideals — and to remind us how vital it is to keep them before us. Along the way he explores such charged topics as globalization, the notion of American exceptionalism, the function of religion in public life, and the struggle to find a shared language in a nation torn by differences. While sharing his personal views on family, faith, and values, he argues that our very survival depends on finding common ground.

Pundits and voters alike have hailed Senator Obama as a man of uncommon vision in an age of partisan opportunism. The Audacity of Hope is a book of transforming power, a foundation for those who long for a politics that acknowledges the nobility and complexity of our lives

About the Author
Barack Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991, where he served as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He has worked as a community organizer, civil rights attorney, and law professor. Since 1997, he has represented parts of Chicago's South Side in the Illinois General Assembly, and he is currently the junior U.S. senator from Illinois. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Michelle, and daughters, Malia and Sasha.

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Barack Obama on TIME Magazine January 26, 2009

Title: TIME Magazine January 26, 2009 Vol.173 No.3
Publisher: The Time Inc. Magazine Company (U.S. Edition)
Pages: 72
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Quality: High
Language: American English

• COVER: How To Spend (and Not Spend) One Trillion Dollars - That's how much money Barack Obama says is needed to kick-start the economy. How he spends it could determine the fate of his presidency [+/-]

• WORLD: Didja Hear the One About the Funny Economist? - Even as the economic gloom deepens, some financial experts just want to have fun. Have you heard the one about the stand-up economist?

• SOCIETY: Boytox: Botox for Men - More men are erasing their wrinkles, part of a "manscaping" movement that could turn out to be recession-proof

• PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Hugh Hefner - Mr. Playboy marks a recent biography and his publication's 55th anniversary. Hugh Hefner will now take your questions

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Barack Obama on TIME Magazine November 24, 2008

Title: TIME Magazine November 24, 2008 Vol.172 No.21
Publisher: The Time Inc. Magazine Company (U.S. Edition)
Pages: 90
Size: 8.41 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

• COVER: The Obama Era's New Liberal Order - The Obama presidency is just the beginning. Why shifting attitudes about government will make Democrats the ruling party for a generation [+/-]

• NATION: The Obama Transition: What Will Change Look Like? - With the election won, the Obama team faces the realities of governing. What the transition reveals about the kind of President Obama will be

• WORLD: At the Blue Man Group's School, Kids Rule - They've played Vegas, Tokyo and Chicago. Now the Blue Man Group faces a tougher crowd. The guys with blue heads have opened a grade school

• SOCIETY: Home Cooks, Meet Molecular Gastronomy - Home cooks, meet molecular gastronomy

• PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Ted Turner - The maverick ex-media mogul looks back in Call Me Ted, his new memoir. Ted Turner will now take your questions

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Barack Obama on TIME Magazine November 17, 2008

Title: TIME Magazine November 17, 2008 Vol. 172 No. 20
Publisher: The Time Inc. Magazine Company (U.S. Edition)
Pages: 152
Size: 1.40 Mb
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Quality: High
Language: American English

• COVER: The Meaning of Obama's Win: How He Rewrote the Book - An election in one of the world's oldest democracies looked like the kind they hold in brand-new ones. Nancy Gibbs on a historic [+/-]

• NATION: A Blue Tide - Democrats expand their reach at all levels of government

• WORLD: Postcard from Kogelo - As Barack Obama becomes the first black U.S. President, his relatives adopt his win as their own. In western Kenya, watching the dream become reality

• SOCIETY: Taking On King Coal - Activists turn to civil disobedience to thwart new power plants

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Barack Obama on TIME Magazine October 27, 2008 (with Audio)

Title: TIME Magazine October 27, 2008 Vol. 172 No. 17
Publisher: The Time Inc. Magazine Company (U.S. Edition)
Pages: 129
Size: 36.47 Mb
Format: PDF+MP3
Quality: High
Language: American English

• COVER: Does Temperament Matter? - Call it reflexes in a crisis. Or instincts under pressure. The qualities that a President needs to succeed are both essential and elusive [+/-]

• BUSINESS: The Economy Really Is Fundamentally Strong - John McCain's "gaffe" wasn't really wrong: the U.S. economy will dip, but it should come back

• SCIENCE: Mars: Pop. 6 - No gridlock yet, but traffic on the Red Planet is getting heavier

• PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Queen Latifah - The actress and rapper stars in The Secret Life of Bees, currently playing. Queen Latifah will now take your questions

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Barack Obama on TIME Magazine September 1, 2008

Title: TIME Magazine September 1, 2008 Vol. 172 No. 9
Publisher: The Time Inc. Magazine Company (U.S. Edition)
Pages: 118
Size: 1.49 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

• COVER: The Five Faces Of Barack Obama - Black man. Healer. Novice. Radical. The future. The Democratic candidate is different things to different people. But only one is his key to victory [+/-]

• HEALTH & MEDICINE: The Snore Wars - That rumbling can put your health, sanity and marriage at risk. Here's what you can do

• SOCIETY: Orlando for Grownups - Forget Cinderella Castle. With kids back in school, this city shows its mature side

• PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Stephenie Meyer - Her Twilight vampire saga ends with the new Breaking Dawn. Stephenie Meyer will now take your questions

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Barack Obama on TIME Magazine October 20, 2008

Title: TIME Magazine October 20, 2008 Vol. 172 No. 16
Publisher: The Time Inc. Magazine Company (U.S. Edition)
Pages: 107
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Quality: High
Language: American English

• COVER: The Limits Of Race - It once seemed potent enough to cost Obama the election. But as the economy falters, race is receding. A battleground report [+/-]

• ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: Body of Lies: Leonardo of Arabia - In the spy thriller Body of Lies, Ridley Scott and two big stars tackle the war on terrorism

• HEALTH & MEDICINE: Sizing Up Your Body - When friends and family are battling weight, it's easy to forget what a healthy body looks like

• PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Lance Armstrong - To raise cancer awareness, the cyclist is returning to the road. Lance Armstrong will now take your questions

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Barack Obama on TIME Magazine April 21, 2008 (with Audio)

Title: TIME Magazine April 21, 2008 Vol.171 No.16
Publisher: The Time Inc. Magazine Company (U.S. Edition)
Pages: 99
Size: 14.00 Mb
Format: PDF + MP3
Quality: High
Language: American English

• COVER: The Story of Barack Obama's Mother - Barack Obama's greatest influence was a woman most Americans know nothing about. How her uncommon life shaped his views of the world [+/-]

• WORLD: Zimbabwe's Opposition Leader Is This Close...Again - Morgan Tsvangirai has been attacked and arrested for challenging Zimbabwe's despot Robert Mugabe. Now he may be on the verge of unseating him

• SOCIETY: On the Colorado Beer Trail - Who needs Napa? Colorado offers fans of craft brews their own playland of tours and tasting bars

• PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Randy Pausch - He's a Carnegie Mellon professor with terminal cancer. His stirring final speech became an Internet sensation and the basis for a new book, The Last Lecture. Randy Pausch will now take your questions

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