Rising Star The Making of Barack Obama

And we have an interview with the man at the center of it. David Garrow is a Pulitzer Prize winning historian and author of the book Rising Star, The Making of Barack Obama.

When Rising Star was first published in May of 2017, Barack had left office four or five months earlier and we were in the early stages of the Trump presidency following that astonishing 2016 election.

And generally speaking, I was very happy with the review attention. The Washington Post named one of the 10 best books of 2017.

But I believe only one fairly obscure conservative website mentioned it at the time.

He has been and remains extremely concerned and nervous about his historical legacy, said David Garrow, who wrote the biography, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama.

Barack Obama says Barack Obama is nervous about his legacy after president-elect Donald Trump's historic victory over vice president Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.

Obama biographer David Garrow gave a long and winding interview on the onetime commanderinchief and included in his book Rising Star.

Garrow's friend Harvey Clare transcribed the paragraphs by hand and sent them to the author, which ended up in the book Rising Star.

the biographer for former president Barack Obama made explosive statements during a lengthy interview published this week by tablet magazine historian David Garrow who wrote Obama's 2017 biography rising star the making of Barack Obama talked about various aspects of who the former president was both politically and personally.

This is from the Post Millennial in a letter to former girlfriend Alex McNair. Obama allegedly confessed that he had repeatedly fantasized about engaging with men in sexual relations.

Garrow said that around when his book Rising Star came out in 2017, McNair sold the originals, which ended up at Emory University.

Garrow said that when Emory got the letters, they put out a press release stating we've gotten these rare letters by Barack Obama, but did not mention any paragraphs that were too sensitive.

The writer sent his friend to the Emory archives where he copied down by pencil the paragraph that was redacted in which Garrow says Barack writes to Alex about how he repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men.