Raising Barack - Obama s Hawaiian and Indonesian Years, 1961 1979: Islam,

Informationen zum Autor Dinesh Sharma , PhD, is a cultural psychologist and senior fellow at the Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Research at St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, NY. Klappentext Distinguishing itself from the mass of political biographies of Barack Obama, this first interdisciplinary study of Obama's Indonesian and Hawai'ian years examines their effect on his adult character, political identity, and global world-view.The first 18 years of President Obama's life, from his birth in 1961 to his departure for college in 1979, were spent in Hawai'i and Indonesia. These years fundamentally shaped the traits for which the adult Obama is noted-his protean identity, his nuanced appreciation of multiple views of the same object, his cosmopolitan breadth of view, and his self-rooted "outpost" patriotism. Barack Obama in Hawai'i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President is the first study to examine, in fascinating detail, how his early years impacted this unique leader.Existing biographies of President Obama are primarily political treatments. Here, cross-cultural psychologist and marketing consultant Dinesh Sharma explores the connections between Obama's early upbringing and his adult views of civil society, secular Islam, and globalization. The book draws on the author's on-the-ground research and extensive first-hand interviews in Jakarta; Honolulu; New York; Washington, DC; and Chicago to evaluate the multicultural inputs to Obama's character and the ways in which they prepared him to meet the challenges of world leadership in the 21st century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Prologue 1 Transformation of the American Mind 2 Origin Stories 3 Women Who Shaped Obama 4 Global Schooling in Jakarta 5 A New Spring in Hawai'i 6 Hybrid Identity on the Mainland 7 Obama's Mythic Dreams 8 The Obama World 9 Reimagining the American Dream List of References Index About the Author ...

Product details

• Authors: Dinesh Sharma
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2011
• EAN: 9780313385339
• ISBN: 978-0-313-38533-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Hawaii, Thailand, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Australian & Oceanian, Political leaders & leadership, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1980, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii / Hawaiʻi (State of)