Garrow produced a nearly non-narrative biography, one whose endless accumulations of detail remind me of a Frederick Wiseman documentary because the readers are expected to do the bulk of the editing in their own heads and reach their own conclusions. /BitsPerComponent 8 Find out more about International ordering Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Extremely well researched. ",#(7),01444'9=82 I obviously disagreed with parts (if you're only going to cover the presidency in an epilogue, not sure it should be covered), but the first 2/3 of the book were fascinating. Could have used another Editor, the opening chapters concerning the steel companies in Chicago were quite tedious. I was in full eye-roll mode when it told me the number of parking tickets Obama got as he was finishing up law school. The book is long and does sometimes feel a bit too onerous, especially when the author veers into descriptions of tangential events. Ebook Format PDF, EPUB. It is Garrow's fifth book. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of My gosh, I've never been so annoyed with a book before.
The rise of Barack Obama is an incredible story and deserves a comprehensive examination, which this book provides in spades. You may think that what you want is all the little details, the entire rise to power.
My criticism against it is the same as many others: it is incredibly dense, including information that I didn't need or care about. Many readers will grow tired of, for example, reading the syllabi for Obama's college courses at Occidental and Columbia, but the faithful will be rewarded. Despite criticism of the book when it was first published, it paints what I consider to be an overwhelmingly A remarkable work of contemporary history, Garrow's work paints a meticulous portrait of one of the most talented politicians of our times.
1078. This book,'Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama' by Dr. David Garrow, is difficult for me to write about.
This book was very interesting and revealing.
Some of Garrow's obsessions are obvious; everyone should understand why he details every newspaper announcement of Obama's birth in 1961. The book is 1400+ pages, over 7 pounds, extremely small type. Among other things Garrow exhaustively covers Chicago issues and politics displaying a thorough and balanced view. >> This book,'Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama' by Dr. David Garrow, is difficult for me to write about. An astonishing achievement in biography writing. Believe me I know a lot about rising. The New York Times book review described Rising Star as "tedious & bloated" I agree 100%. I hope Garrow publishes a sequel covering the presidential years.Enlightening!