Darko bosnakovski biography of barack obama
Barack Obama. Though not blind
Barack Obama undoubtedly possesses one of the most complicated - and fascinating - backgrounds of any former president of the United States. Born to a father he hardly knew and to a mother he almost never saw, Obama's path to the White House is one of the most remarkable and unlikely of any I've seen..On November 4, , Barrack Obama defeated John McCain in the United States presidential election. When Obama took office on January 20, , he inherited an economy that had been in recession since December (National Bureau of Economic Research, ).
Barack Obama was the first African American president of the United States (–17). He oversaw the recovery of the U.S. economy (from the Great Recession of –09) and the enactment of landmark health care reform (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). In he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Known For: Obama was the 44th president of the United States Born: Aug. 4, in Honolulu, Hawaii Parents: Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham Education: Occidental College, Columbia University (B.A.), Harvard University (J.D.).