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Becoming Obama
By David Maraniss
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/06/young-barack-obama-in-love-david-maraniss
When Barack Obama met
Genevieve Cook in 1983 at a Christmas party in New York’s
East Village, it was the start of his most
serious romance yet. But as the 22-year-old Columbia grad began to shape his future, he
was also struggling with his identity: American or international? Black or white?
Drawing on conversations with both Cook and the president, David Maraniss, in
an adaptation from his new Obama biography, has the untold story of the
couple’s time together.
David Maraniss on Interviewing Obama—and Bringing Up the
President’s Ex-Girlfriend—for His New Biography
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/05/david-maraniss-barack-obama-genevieve-cook
David Maraniss,
born 1949 is a
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. As a reporter for The Washington Post he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for
National Reporting for his stories about the life and career of candidate Bill
Clinton in the 1992 campaign for the U.S. presidency.
Maraniss began his
journalism career as a high school student in Madison, Wisconsin, where he
covered antiwar protests and high school football for a local daily newspaper.
An associate editor at the Post, he joined that paper in 1977 and has served it
in various capacities since.
Maraniss's 2008 book was
Rome 1960: The
Olympics that Changed the World. He also published in 2006 Clemente: The
Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero, about Roberto Clemente. In 2004 he
was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize forThey Marched into Sunlight: War
and Peace, Vietnam and America,
October 1967. Previous books include First in His Class: A Biography of Bill
Clinton, Tell Newt To Shut Up (co-authored with Michael Weisskopf), The Clinton
Enigma, and When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi. The Post assigned
him the job of biographer for their coverage of 2008 presidential candidate
Barack Obama.
Maraniss and wife
Linda live in Washington, D.C. and Madison, Wisconsin.