A review by vanblarcumc
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama by David J. Garrow

2.0

At 1,078 pages of text before the acknowledgements and footnotes, the book is not lacking in detail. But a bit too much detail, which really could have been whittled down and synthesized better. Garrow also could have dropped out the epilogue, which cursorily runs through the 2008 campaign through his Presidency in about 50 pages in a chapter entitled, “The President Did Not Attend, As He Was Golfing” — if that’s your key takeaway about the Obama Presidency, I have some news from the future for you.