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A Singular Woman: The Untold Story Of Barack Obama's Mother (2011)

by Janny Scott(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1594487979 (ISBN13: 9781594487972)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Riverhead Hardcover

review 1: This is a really good book. It gives you some amazing insight to particularly President Obama's crusade on healthcare. When you see what happened to his mother because of the lack of healthcare and also her battle with obesity, his words become clear. It is sad when it appears that he abandoned the things that made his mother unique. I realize that unfortunately color defines us in the US but her story is excellent and I am really glad I read it.
review 2: Stanley Ann Dunham was an amazing woman and you can see how any child of hers was also destined to be a leader. The biography, itself, though loses a great deal (in my view) because there is very little of her own voice in the book. We rely, very much, on reminiscences from people with whom Ann worked with... more and studied. I have a sense that they didn't begin to capture her zest for life and the desires she had for her children. Alas, for people who do not realize that some day someone will want to be their biographer and they have not squirreled away papers, diaries, copies of their letters and e-mails for that very purpose. And, as keeping papers becomes more and more rare, will future biographies seem as lifeless as this one? less

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