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Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father

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Barack Obama, born Barack Hussein Obama II on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu,
Hawaii is the son of a Kenyan senior governmental economist Barack Obama Sr and white American mother Stanley Ann Dunham. By the time he was two years old his parents have separated. In 1966, his mother married and the family moved to Indonesia. At 10 years old, he moved back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents who raised him from then on. Obama graduated with a B.A in political science from Colombia University in 1983. In 1988, he applied for and was accepted in the Harvard Law School. The work was hard and competition was fierce but Obama thrived in his new environment. At the end of his first year, one of his country's top Law Firms Sidley and Austin hired Obama as a summer intern in a Chicago office.
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On Feburary 5, 1990, Barack Obama became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama graduated from Harvard in 1990 but before he began his legal career, Obama signed on with a publisher and began putting his experiences on paper. His work became a candid memoir titled “Dreams from My Father”. In it Obama made his past and personal struggles a matter of public record. Obama's public life was about to begin.
In 1996, Obama won a seat in the Republican Control Illinois State Senate when after 8 years he ran for the US senate. 2007, the freshman senator announced he was running for president of the United States (his main opponent was Hillary Clinton), he won the nomination. 2008, Obama won the general election. January 20, 2009, Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America. 10 months later he won the Nobel Peace Prize. While dealing with the consequences of inheriting two wars and attempting to develop a strategy for bringing them to an end, Obama and the US military were able to track down and kill Osama bin

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