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Watch a video 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 xwhat is best in mex Here is the missing piece of the story Award-winning reporter Janny Scott interviewed nearly two hundred of Dunhams 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 womans inspiring and untraditional life and to show the remarkable extent to which she shaped the man Obama is today Dunhams 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 Obamas destiny was created early by his mothers extraordinary faith in his gifts and by her unconventional mothering Finally it is a heartbreaking story of a woman who died at age fifty-two before her son would go on to his greatest accomplishments and reflections of what she taught him.



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Janny Scott

Janny Scott is the author of "The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father" (April 16, 2019) and "A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother." She was a reporter for The New York Times from 1994 to 2008 and was a member of the Times reporting team that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for the series "How Race is Lived in America." She was previously a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey. Her first book, a New York Times bestseller, was the runner up for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography and one of Time magazine's top ten nonfiction books of 2011. Her second book, "The Beneficiary," was chosen by The New York Times as one of its 100 Notable Books of 2019, and by NPR as one of its Favorite Books of 2019. https://jannyscott.com



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