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7/12/11

President Obama's Father: A 'Bold And Reckless Life'

A photograph of Barack Obama's father hangs on the wall of his grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama's house in the Kenyan village of Kogelo. 




President Obama is the son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father who met at the University of Hawaii in 1960. The president last saw his father when he was 10, when Obama Sr. made a brief visit to Hawaii from Kenya, where he moved when the future president was just a toddler.

But what was Barack Obama Sr. really like? Biographer Sally H. Jacobs takes an in-depth look at his life — and his legacy — in The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father.

The Childhood Of Barack Obama Sr.

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