
A Singular Woman
The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother
By: Janny Scott
Paperback | 1 May 2012 | Edition Number 1
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"Even Obama knew that he had not his extraordinary mother justice. Janny Scott . . . does. She portrays Dunham as a feminist, an utterly independent spirit, a cultural anthropologies, and an international development officer who surely helped shape the internationalist, post-Vietnam-era world view of her son. Scott's book is tirelessly researched, and the sections covering Dunham's life in Indonesia especially are new and valuable to the accumulating biography of Obama's extended global family."--The New Yorker
"Janny Scott packs two and a half years of research into her bio of Stanley Ann Dunham, the quixotic anthropologist who raised a president."--People
"The restrained, straight-ahead focus--rather in the spirit, it turns out, of Dunham herself--pays off. By recovering Obama's mother from obscurity, A Singular Woman adds in a meaningful way to an understanding of a singular president."--Slate
"The key to understanding the disciplined and often impassive 44th president is his mother, as Janny Scott, a reporter for the New York Times, decisively demonstrates in her new biography A Singular Woman. . . . Scott [uses] meticulous reporting, archival research and extensive interviews with Dunham's colleagues, friends and family, including the president and his sister. What emerges is a portrait of a woman who is both disciplined and disorganized, blunt-spoken and empathetic, driven and devoted to her children, even as she ruefully admits her failings and frets over her distance from them."--The Washington Post
"Meticulously-researched and well-written . . . a necessary counterpart and corrective to Obama's first book Dreams from my Father."--Financial Times
"In her own right, Ann Dunham was a fascinating woman. . . . The story of the 'singular woman' at the center of this book is told, and told well, by Scott."--San Francisco Chronicle
"What emerges in this straightforward, deeply reported account is a complicated portrait of an outspoken, independent-minded woman with a life of unconventional choices."--USA Today
"We get a much fuller story of Ms. Dunham's life in A Singular Woman, Janny Scott's richly researched, unsentimental book."--The New York Times
"A richly nuanced, decidedly sympathetic portrait of President Obama's remarkably accomplished, spirited mother. . . . A biography of considerable depth and understanding."--Kirkus
"Scott gives us a vivid, affecting profile of an unsung feminist pioneer who made breaking down barriers a family tradition and whose legacy extends well beyond her presidential son."--Publishers Weekly (starred)
ISBN: 9781594485596
ISBN-10: 1594485593
Published: 1st May 2012
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 400
Audience: General Adult
For Ages: 18+ years old
For Grades: 12+
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Country of Publication: US
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 21.0 x 14.1 x 2.2
Weight (kg): 0.34
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