When Washington won the nomination: "This American Life," # 376, Chicago Public Radio, March 13, 2009.

On the streets of white ethnic neighborhoods: Levinsohn, Harold Washington Harold Washington, p. 200.

The Chicago Tribune Tribune endorsed Harold Washington endorsed Harold Washington: Leanita McClain, Washington Post Post, July 24, 1983.

Haskel Levy, an aide to Bernard Epton: "This American Life," # 376, Chicago Public Radio, March 13, 2009.

"I am not ashamed of being white!": Travis, An Autobiography of Black Politics An Autobiography of Black Politics, p. 602.

A young reporter for the Tribune Tribune: Rivlin, Fire on the Prairie Fire on the Prairie, p. 191.

When asked on a radio call-in show: "This American Life," # 84, Chicago Public Radio, November 9, 2007.

At his victory celebration: Travis, An Autobiography of Black Politics An Autobiography of Black Politics, p. 610.

"He never became what I would consider": "This American Life," # 84, Chicago Public Radio, November 9, 2007.

One winter morning: Knoepfle, After Alinsky After Alinsky, p. 36.

The menace of the place: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 165.

Allen interviewed residents: Martha Allen, Chicago Reporter Reporter, 15, no. 6 (June 1986).

Obama wrote that the trip: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 242.

Walter Jacobson did a report: Martha Allen, Chicago Reporter Reporter, 15, no. 7 (July 1986).

In a sermon that deeply affected Obama: Wright, What Makes You So Strong? What Makes You So Strong?, p. 97.

"When I was growing up": Ibid., p. 28.

At first, he told Roger Wilkins: Roger Wilkins, "Frontline," PBS, June 16, 1987.

After enduring the humiliations: Cone, Black Theology and Black Power Black Theology and Black Power, p. 32.

In an America that continued: Ibid.

Blackness, for Cone: Ibid., p. 37.

By way of explanation: Ibid., p. 13.

The spirituals, Cone writes: Ibid., p. 100 In The Negro Church The Negro Church: Frazier, The Negro Church in America The Negro Church in America, p. 149.

For instance, to explain: Jeremiah Wright, N.A.A.C.P. Benefit, Detroit, Michigan, April 27, 2008.

"Some people say": Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 283.

In 1981, a committee at Trinity: www.tucc.org.

When conservative critics suggested: Manya A. Brachear and Bob Secter, Chicago Tribune Tribune, February 6, 2007.

On November 25, 1987: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 287.

In many ways, Obama revered Washington: Ibid., p. 288.

Just after he left his job as an organizer: Knoepfle, After Alinsky After Alinsky, p. 36.

"We tend to think of organizing": Ibid., p. 133.

"They are not necessarily": Ibid., p. 134.

To disdain politics, he told the panel: Ibid., p. 133.

Chapter Five: Ambition.

"I would learn about interest rates": Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 276.

Obama said that Harvard Law School: Elise O'Shaughnessy, "Harvard Law Reviewed," Vanity Fair Vanity Fair, June 1990.

When Derrick Bell: Fox b.u.t.terfield, New York Times Times, May 21, 1990.

"We felt as if we had the hardest": Noam Scheiber, "Crimson Tide," The New Republic The New Republic, February 4, 2009.

Obama lived much as he had: Michael Levenson and Jonathan Saltzman, Boston Globe Globe, January 28, 2007.

Beyond the "boot camp": Turow, One L One L, p. 300.

"If anybody had walked by": Michael Levenson and Jonathan Saltzman, Boston Globe Globe, January 28, 2007.

A group would go together: Ibid.

"In law school, we had a seminar": Larissa MacFarquhar, "The Conciliator," The New Yorker The New Yorker, May 7, 2007.

Ian Macneil, the visiting contracts professor: Paul Hutcheon, Sunday Herald Sunday Herald, June 8, 2008.

Not a few of his colleagues were shocked: Stewart Yerton, "Midas Touch in the Ivory Tower: The Croesus of Cambridge," American Lawyer American Lawyer 16, no. 3 (1994). 16, no. 3 (1994).

In May, 1915, The Crisis The Crisis: Kluger, Simple Justice Simple Justice, p. 105.

"Charles Houston became": Ibid., p. 106.

Houston was committed to purpose: McNeil, Groundwork Groundwork, p. 84.

As Houston's biographer Genna Rae McNeil: Ibid., p. 7.

After the great victory in Brown: Lisa Krause, "Charles Houston: The Man Who Killed Jim Crow," National Geographic National Geographic, February 7, 2001.

In 1991, Obama filmed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L489QHEQa_4.

Frankfurter once said: Kerlow, Poisoned Ivy Poisoned Ivy, p. 20.

Obama nearly botched his bid: Michael Levenson and Jonathan Saltzman, Boston Globe Globe, January 28, 2007.

"Honestly, we were just very polarized": Christine Spurell interview, "Frontline," PBS, October 14, 2008.

Robinson, like everyone at the firm: Mich.e.l.le Obama interview with Suzanne Malveaux, CNN, January 1, 2009.

"He sounded too good to be true": Mendell, Obama: From Promise to Power Obama: From Promise to Power, p. 93.

To her surprise: Mich.e.l.le Obama interview with Suzanne Malveaux, CNN, January 1, 2009.

Besides, she and Obama were two: Mendell, Obama: From Promise to Power Obama: From Promise to Power, p. 94.

"Man, she is hot!": Carol Felsenthal, "The Making of a First Lady," Chicago Magazine Chicago Magazine, February 2009.

They also had their first kiss: Barack Obama, "My First Date with Mich.e.l.le," O, The Oprah Magazine O, The Oprah Magazine, February 2007.

"Probably by the end of that date": Mich.e.l.le Obama interview with Suzanne Malveaux, CNN, January 1, 2009.

"When you grow up as a black kid": Peter Slevin, Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton Alumni Weekly, February 18, 2009.

"It was my secret shame": Mundy, Mich.e.l.le Mich.e.l.le, p. 67.

"My experiences at Princeton": Mich.e.l.le Robinson, "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community," undergraduate thesis, Princeton University, p. 2.

When they were first: Liza Mundy, Washington Post Post, August 12, 2007.

Obama, for his part: Ibid.

"Most of my peers at the Law Review" Law Review": Ibid.

"Before I could say a word, another black student": Tammerlin Drummond, Los Angeles Times Times, March 19, 1990.

Interviewed for the New York Times Times: Fox b.u.t.terfield, New York Times Times, February 6, 1990.

Obama gave many interviews: Jodi Kantor, New York Times Times, January 28, 2007.

Nearly all the articles: Ryan Lizza, "Making It," The New Yorker The New Yorker, July 21, 2008.

Obama told the Boston Globe Globe: Linda Matchan, Boston Globe Globe, February 15, 1990.

She argued that goals of tolerance: Jeffrey Ressner and Ben Smith, Politico Politico, June 23, 2008.

Bell wrote, in "Serving Two Masters": Derrick Bell, "Serving Two Masters," Yale Law Journal Yale Law Journal, 1976.

"Black people will never gain": Bell, Faces at the Bottom of the Well Faces at the Bottom of the Well, p. 12.

On April 9, 1990: Letter from Derrick Bell to Robert Clark, April 9, 1990.

apologetic for failing to realize: Ibid.

Dressed in khakis and a light-blue dress shirt: "Frontline," PBS, January 19, 2009.

"One of the luxuries of going": Tammerlin Drummond, Los Angeles Times Times, March 19, 1990.

Obama wrote to the Record Record: Barack Obama, Harvard Law Record Harvard Law Record 91, no. 7 (November 16, 1990). 91, no. 7 (November 16, 1990).

"I have no way of knowing": Journal of Blacks in Higher Education Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, no. 30 (Winter 2000-2001).

In the annual parody issue: Jodi Kantor, New York Times Times, January 28, 2007.

At Harvard, Obama secretly: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. 437.

"Well, no, actually": Janny Scott interview, "Frontline," PBS, October 14, 2008.

Chapter Six: A Narrative of Ascent.

"He spent a lot of time": James L. Merriner, "Friends of O," Chicago Magazine Chicago Magazine, June 2008.

"Today, we see hundreds": Vernon Jarrett, Chicago Sun-Times Sun-Times, July 11, 1992.

In an interview with the Chicago Reader Reader: Interview, Chicago Reader Reader, March 17, 2000.

Crain's Chicago Business: "Forty Under Forty," Crain's Chicago Business Crain's Chicago Business, September 27, 1993.

When a reporter who was writing: Gretchen Reynolds, "Vote of Confidence," Chicago Magazine Chicago Magazine, January 1993.

"All my life, I have been st.i.tching together": Mariana Cook, "A Couple in Chicago," The New Yorker The New Yorker, January 19, 2009.

Her a.s.sociate Jay Acton: Robert Draper, "Barack Obama's Work in Progress," GQ GQ, November 2009.

After his wedding and honeymoon: Ibid.

In a preface to the 2004: Obama, Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father, p. ix.

There are more than six thousand: Gates, The Cla.s.sic Slave Narratives The Cla.s.sic Slave Narratives, p. ix.