Obama Father

If You Really Want to Understand What This Race is About, Look at the Two Candidates' Fathers

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

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Johann Hari

Both men have written strange, searching books about their fathers. It is in their pages that we can find the clearest -- and most haunting -- clues to their potential presidencies.

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A View From Nairobi

Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tamar Abrams

To the Kenyans I met, our Democratic candidate is their hope, their symbol. Their "native son" -- the man with the African name -- represents possibilities and an affirmation of their place in the world.

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Long-Lost Article By Obama's Father Surfaces

Politico | BEN SMITH & JEFFREY RESSNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama's dad was such an important but absent figure in his life that he devoted his first book, Dreams From My Father, to the search for detail...

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