Garen Eileen Thomas - Yes We Can: A Biography of Barack Obama

THIS IS OUR MOMENT?This is our time?to put people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth?that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope; and where we are met with cynicism and doubt, and those who tell us that we can?t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.? ? President Barack Obama, Acceptance Speech; Chicago, IL; November 4, 2008Born in the U.S.A., the son of an African father and an American mother, a boy who spent his childhood in Indonesia and Hawaii, Barack Obama is truly a citizen of the world. In kindergarten, he wrote an essay titled, ?I Want to Become President, ? and now, with his fierce optimism, exuberant sense of purpose and determination, and above all, his belief that change "can" happen, Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States, has made that dream come ...