Barack Obama in Hawai'i and Indonesia The Making of a Global President

"Sharma (culture psychology and marketing, St. Francis College, New York) provides a psycho-cultural biography ofPresident Obama in his first 18 years in Hawai'i and Indonesia, then later on as a young man in college and afterwardson the mainland United States. Using as evidence Obama's writings along with interviews with Obama's former teachers, his half-sister, classmates in the Catholic elementary school and state elementary school (that used Muslim prayers) thatObama attended as a child in Jakarta, and interviews in the elite prep school in Honolulu he later attended, the authorcontends that Obama is the United State's first global president, given that his first experiences were with multiracial, multiethnic, multilinguistic people in those areas. . . . Recommended." - Choice