When Obama was running: Mendell, Obama: From Promise to Power Obama: From Promise to Power, p. 39.

He was impatient with village life: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 397.

A "domestic servant's pocket register": Ibid., p. 425.

"Wow, that guy was mean mean!": Ibid., p. 369.

"He did not like the way": Ben Macintyre and Paul Orengoh, The Times The Times of London, December 3, 2008. of London, December 3, 2008.

"During the Emergency": Mboya, Freedom and After Freedom and After, p. 42.

"Questions like the number of oaths": Elkins, Imperial Reckoning Imperial Reckoning, p. 68.

"The small conductor was either": Ibid., p. 258.

According to an interview: Ben Macintyre and Paul Orengoh, The Times The Times of London, December 3, 2008. of London, December 3, 2008.

"He had difficulty walking": Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 418.

"When the pupils were naughty": Xan Rice, The Guardian The Guardian, June 6, 2008.

"He asked to dance with me": John Oywa, The Standard The Standard, November 11, 2008.

"There was so much excitement": Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times Times, July 17, 2008.

"We've got this guy": Alan Jackson, The Times The Times of London, June 6, 2008. of London, June 6, 2008.

"He's like a fictional character": Bill Flanagan, The Times The Times of London, April 6, 2009. of London, April 6, 2009.

And as a genealogist: http://www.wargs.com/political/obama.html.

Kansas was the "dab-smack": Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 13.

"Part of me settling in Chicago": Toby Harnden, Daily Telegraph Daily Telegraph, August 23, 2008.

In his memoir, Obama alludes: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 14. Benac's article tells the entire story of Dunham's military career.

"They read the Bible": Ibid.

"He was really gung-ho": Nancy Benac, a.s.sociated Press a.s.sociated Press, June 5, 2009.

"Sgt. Dunham has been doing a good job": Ibid.

When Stanley Dunham came home: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 15.

In their first year in Seattle: Jonathan Martin, Seattle Times Times, April 8, 2008.

Ann's friends jokingly dubbed: Ibid.

The Dunhams sometimes attended: Tim Jones, Chicago Tribune Tribune, March 27, 2007.

"The changing time was impressing itself": "Investigations: Out of a Man's Past," Time Time, April 11, 1955.

"Let's rise on our hind legs": Ibid.

The local press took a keen interest: David Maraniss, Washington Post Post, August 22, 2008.

When a Honolulu paper published: Sally Jacobs, Boston Globe Globe, September 21, 2008.

"When I first came here": David Maraniss, Washington Post Post, August 22, 2008.

One day Obama asked her to meet him: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 127.

She "was that girl with the movie": Ibid.

Kezia told a Kenyan reporter: John Oywa, The Standard The Standard, November 11, 2008.

Toward the end of her life: Mendell, Obama: From Promise to Power Obama: From Promise to Power, p. 29.

"She was very much of the early": Amanda Ripley, "The Story of Barack Obama's Mother," Time Time, April 9, 2008.

"What can you say": Jodi Kantor, New York Times Times, January 21, 2009.

For him, the choice was easy: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 126.

To survive, Lolo's mother: Ibid., p. 42.

The Soetoros lived in a crowded: Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times Times, March 15, 2007.

"You never know": Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 31.

In Hawaii, he had seemed liberated: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 43.

One friend, Julia Suryakusuma: Michael Sheridan and Sarah Baxter, Sunday Sunday Times Times, January 28, 2007.

"At first, everybody felt it was weird": Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times Times, March 15, 2007.

one of his teachers at St. Francis: Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times Times, March 15, 2007.

Cecilia Sugini Hananto: Kirsten Scharnberg and Kim Barker, Chicago Tribune Tribune, March 25, 2007.

"In the Muslim school": Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 154.

Obama, Jr., has called his father: Jon Meacham, "On His Own," Newsweek Newsweek, September 1, 2008.

Philip Ochieng, a prominent Luo journalist: Philip Ochieng, Daily Nation Daily Nation, October 11, 2008.

When Barack, Jr., visited Nairobi: Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times Times, July 17, 2008.

But there was more to it: Keith B. Richburg, Washington Post Post, November 5, 2009.

Little more than a year: Barack H. Obama, Sr., "Problems Facing Our Socialism," East Africa Journal East Africa Journal, July, 1965.

As an ideologist of Kenyan independence: Goldsworthy, Tom Mboya: The Man Kenya Wanted to Forget Tom Mboya: The Man Kenya Wanted to Forget, p. 55.

It poses the central question: Barack H. Obama, Sr., "Problems Facing Our Socialism," East Africa Journal East Africa Journal, July, 1965.

"One need not be a Kenyan": Ibid.

"To that extent, he was naive": Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times Times, July 17, 2008.

"Barack never really recovered": Ibid.

Walgio Orwa, a professor: Ibid.

According to Njenga's lawyer: Billy Muiruri, Daily Nation Daily Nation, July 3, 2009.

"I was with Tom only last week.": Joe Ombuor, The Standard The Standard, April 11, 2008.

He declared that Odinga's party: "Kenya: We Will Crush You," Time Time, November 7, 1969.

"He would pa.s.s out on the doorstep": Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times Times, July 17, 2008.

He complained to Okoda: John Oywa and George Olwenya, The Standard The Standard, November 15, 2008.

In his sober moments: Ibid.

Chapter Two: Surface and Undertow.

Years later, she confided: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 57.

The waiting list was long: Ibid., p. 58.

The novelist Allegra Goodman: Allegra Goodman, "Rainbow Warrior," The New Republic The New Republic, February 13, 2008.

"Would you prefer": Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 59.

"One of the challenges": Barack Obama, Punahou School, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2004.

In truth, he knew little: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 63.

He was fragile--oddly cautious: Ibid., p 65.

"We all stood accused": Ibid., p. 68.

He remembers that the next day: Ibid, p 69.

To the contrary: Ibid., p. 70.

"We all gathered as a group": Ramos, Our Friend Barry Our Friend Barry, p. 15.

"On the mainland": Ibid., p. 38.

He took part in high-school goofs: Ibid., p. 81.

Constance Ramos, whose background: Ibid., p. 13.

"The lovely tropical home": Allegra Goodman, "Rainbow Warrior," The New Republic The New Republic, February 13, 2008.

"When I started reading": Ramos, Our Friend Barry Our Friend Barry, p. 70.

When he started making trouble: Kirsten Scharnberg and Kim Barker, Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune, March 25, 2007.

"I remember her feeling saddened": Wolffe, Renegade Renegade, p. 150.

"Some of the problems of adolescent rebellion": David Mendell, Chicago Tribune Tribune, October 22, 2004.

"When I think about my mother": Amanda Ripley, "The Story of Barack Obama's Mother," Time Time, April 9, 2008.

"I didn't feel [her absence]": Ibid.

She had a capacity to get: Dunham, Surviving Against the Odds Surviving Against the Odds, p. xxi.

"She wasn't ideological": Amanda Ripley, "The Story of Barack Obama's Mother," Time Time, April 9, 2008.

"He became the kind of person": Andra Wisnu, Jakarta Post Post, November 14, 2008.

"He didn't know who he was": Jodi Kantor, New York Times, June Times, June 1, 2007. 1, 2007.

"Basketball was a good way for me": Todd Purdum, "Raising Obama," Vanity Fair Vanity Fair, March 2008.

"It was good to get a few props": Austin Murphy, "Obama Discusses His Hoops Memories at Punahou High," Sports Ill.u.s.trated Sports Ill.u.s.trated, May 21, 2008.

In 1999, Obama, writing: Barack Obama, Punahou Bulletin Bulletin, 1999.

Exhausted in his attempt: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 93.

In what may be the most famous: Ibid.

"It was Hawaii in the seventies": Toby Harnden, Daily Telegraph Daily Telegraph, August 21, 2009.

"I'm sure if my mother": Todd Purdum, "Raising Obama," Vanity Fair Vanity Fair, March 2008.