Podcasts about rising star the making

Obama himself spent eight hours reading the manuscript. But Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama is very much an unauthorized biography. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Garrow describes how the 44th president shaped his personal life to create the right political image.

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Barack Obama was president of the United States for eight years, and the broad outlines of his story—his Hawaiian birth, his fatherless childhood, his education at elite institutions, his work as a community organizer and politician in Chicago—are now familiar elements of American history. But even today, Obama retains a remarkable mystique, and can seem unknowable. All leaders must create narratives around themselves, but Obama’s is especially dense and complicated. Who is Barack Obama? How did he construct his own identity—and what did that construction mean for the way he governed America? David J. Garrow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, sat down with Warren Olney at Zócalo to unpack the peculiar origin story of the American president in a Zócalo/KCRW “Critical Thinking with Warren Olney” event titled "How Did Barack Obama Create Himself?" at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy in downtown Los Angeles.

Making Barack Obama, the High Court, and more. Meredith geeks out a little about favorite Supreme Court justices with historian and author, David Garrow. In this captivating epsisode covering Obama, Roe v. Wade and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Meredith and David really dig into some interesting legal and political topics. In his book, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, Pulitzer-Prize winner David Garrow addresses how Barack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catapulted him into the national spotlight and led to his election four years later as America's first African-American president.  About David Garrow Book: https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Star-Making-Barack-Obama/dp/0062641832  Web: http://www.davidgarrow.com/ The Book: Rising Star Rising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the Cross. Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama captivatingly describes Barack Obama's tumultuous upbringing as a young black man attending an almost-all-white, elite private school in Honolulu while being raised almost exclusively by his white grandparents. After recounting Obama's college years in California and New York, Garrow charts Obama's time as a Chicago community organizer, working in some of the city's roughest neighborhoods; his years at the top of his Harvard Law School class; and his return to Chicago, where Obama honed his skills as a hard-knuckled politician, first in the state legislature and then as a candidate for the United States Senate. Detailing a scintillating, behind-the-scenes account of Obama's 2004 speech, a moment that labeled him the Democratic Party's "rising star," Garrow also chronicles Obama's four years in the Senate, weighing his stands on various issues against positions he had taken years earlier, and recounts his thrilling run for the White House in 2008. In Rising Star, David J. Garrow has created a vivid portrait that reveals not only the people and forces that shaped the future president but also the ways in which he used those influences to serve his larger aspirations. This is a gripping read about a young man born into uncommon family circumstances, whose faith in his own talents came face-to-face with fantastic ambitions and a desire to do good in the world. Most important, Rising Star is an extraordinary work of biography—tremendous in its research and storytelling, and brilliant in its analysis of the all-too-human struggles of one of the most fascinating politicians of our time. ======================  Request to Join the FREE Meredith Atwood Community & Coaching https://meredith-atwood-coaching.mn.co/ ======================  Buy Meredith’s Books: The Year of No Nonsense https://amzn.to/3su5qWp Triathlon for the Every Woman: https://amzn.to/3nOkjiH =======================   Follow Meredith Atwood & The Podcast on Social: Web: http://www.swimbikemom.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/swimbikemom   =======================  Want to Connect?  Email: same24hourspodcast@gmail.com =======================  Credits: Host & Production: Meredith Atwood Intro: Carl Stover Music Copyright 2017-2020, 2021 All Rights Reserved, Meredith Atwood, LLC

In "Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama," Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Garrow successfully upends the entire narrative of Obama's life, calling his memoirs "historical fiction" and explaining, through hundreds of interviews, how Obama created a narrative in order to win political power. He joined Jonathon Van Maren to discuss that fascinating story.

T.J. O’Hara interviews David Garrow on his new book "Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama," released this month. David discusses Barack before his political career takes off, and the choices he makes that lead to ex-president we see today. Regarding the book, host T.J. says, “It was almost like you couldn’t recognize the early Barack Obama when you compared and contrasted him to the Presidential Barack Obama.” Professor of Law & History and Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Prior to moving to Pittsburgh, David was Senior Research Fellow at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. David is the author of a number of biographies and historical books, including the "Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference," for which he won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. David regularly contributes to the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the American Prospect, and more. His academic writings have been published in the Supreme Court Review, the Yale Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review, Cornell Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Constitutional Commentary. He has taught at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the City University of New York, The Cooper Union, the College of William and Mary, American University, and Emory University. David was born in Massachusetts in 1953, graduated magna cum laude from Wesleyan University in 1975, and received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1981. In 2003 he married Virginia Darleen Opfer, now Director of RAND Education and Distinguished Chair in Education Policy.

LA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with David Garrow, author of the new presidential biography, "Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama."

David Garrow is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, best known for his biography on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. published in 1986. His new book is out in May, a comprehensive biography of America’s 44th president. In this episode, David discusses Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, as well as other current events including Trump’s election, the Supreme Court, and the current state of academia. Show Notes What he was doing on election night and who he voted for How the rise of the Internet has dramatically altered US politics What David thought about the dossier and Buzzfeed’s publishing of it Trump’s Russia connection and if there are people in the intelligence community who are trying to take down Donald Trump Why there is no chance that Obama wiretapped Donald Trump during the election Why he thinks Gorsuch should be confirmed What has happened the the politicizing of the Supreme Court Why David thinks there should be a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court Justices David’s rich understand of Justice Clarence Thomas How Barack Obama become a politician at the Illinois State Legislature What Obama would disagree with in this biography of him What he thinks about Barack’s reaction to Trump’s election Why David is disappointed in the current state of academia What happened when he won the Pulitzer Prize at 33 years old Links Bearing the Cross Rising Star DavidGarrow.com