Barack Obama in Hawai'i and Indonesia : the making of a global president
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Barack Obama in Hawai'i and Indonesia : the making of a global president
Praeger, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-262) and index
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内容説明
Distinguishing itself from the mass of political biographies of Barack Obama, this first interdisciplinary study of Obama's Indonesian and Hawai'ian years examines their effect on his adult character, political identity, and global world-view.
The first 18 years of President Obama's life, from his birth in 1961 to his departure for college in 1979, were spent in Hawai'i and Indonesia. These years fundamentally shaped the traits for which the adult Obama is noted-his protean identity, his nuanced appreciation of multiple views of the same object, his cosmopolitan breadth of view, and his self-rooted "outpost" patriotism. Barack Obama in Hawai'i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President is the first study to examine, in fascinating detail, how his early years impacted this unique leader.
Existing biographies of President Obama are primarily political treatments. Here, cross-cultural psychologist and marketing consultant Dinesh Sharma explores the connections between Obama's early upbringing and his adult views of civil society, secular Islam, and globalization. The book draws on the author's on-the-ground research and extensive first-hand interviews in Jakarta; Honolulu; New York; Washington, DC; and Chicago to evaluate the multicultural inputs to Obama's character and the ways in which they prepared him to meet the challenges of world leadership in the 21st century.
目次
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1 Transformation of the American Mind
2 Origin Stories
3 Women Who Shaped Obama
4 Global Schooling in Jakarta
5 A New Spring in Hawai'i
6 Hybrid Identity on the Mainland
7 Obama's Mythic Dreams
8 The Obama World
9 Reimagining the American Dream
List of References
Index
About the Author
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