Barack Obama’s Family Tree

Reflecting the President's statement, quoted in the book, that "our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness," this unusual title details the branches of Barack Obama's complicated family tree. It opens with a discussion of family trees in general and provides a full-spread chart illustrating Obama's nuclear and extended family, with a thumbnail black-and-white or color photo for many of its members. The book goes on to provide, on a spread each, biographical information on various individuals (back to his grandparents), and outlines some of the man's formative experiences that included his relatives. Larger, sometimes full-page, photos show the young Barack in Hawaii with his family, and travelling around the world in search of his roots as a young man. Von Zumbusch's work provides information not often found in biographies of Obama, and will also serve as a handy accompaniment to genealogy units.