Summary
Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catapulted him into the national spotlight and led to his election four years later as America's first African-American president. Garrow has created a vivid portrait that reveals not only the people and forces that shaped the futur... Full description
- The end of the world as they knew it: Chicago's far South Side, March 1980
- July 1985
- A place in the world: Honolulu, Seattle, Honolulu, Jakarta, and Honolulu, August 1961
- September 1979
- Searching for home: Eagle Rock, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Hermitage, PA, September 1979
- July 1985
- Transformation and identity: Roseland, Hyde Park, and Kenya: August 1985
- August 1988
- Emergence and achievement: Harvard Law School, September 1988
- May 1991
- Building a future: Chicago, June 1991
- August 1995
- Into the Arena: Chicago and Springfield, September 1995
- September 1999
- Failure and recovery: Chicago and Springfield, October 1999
- January 2003
- Calculation, coincidence, coronation: Illinois and Boston, January 2003
- November 2004
- Disappointment and destiny: the U.S. Senate, November 2004
- February 2007
- Epilogue: the President did not attend, as he was golfing.