Bio
Larissa MacFarquhar
Larissa MacFarquhar has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998.
David Remnick
David Remnick was a staff writer for The New Yorker from 1992 to 1998, when he took over as editor. He is the author of several books, including Lenin's Tomb (Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award) and the best-selling The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama.
Encyclopædia Britannica Article
- Obama, Barack
(born Aug. 4, 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.) 44th president of the U.S. (2009 ). Obama graduated from Columbia University (1983) and Harvard Law School (1991), where he was the first African American to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review. He moved to Chicago, where he served as a community organizer and lectured in constitutional law at the University of Chicago before he was elected (1996) to the Illinois Senate as a member of the Democratic Party. In 2004 he was elected to the U.S. Senate and quickly became a major national political figure. In 2008 Obama won an upset victory over former U.S. first lady Hillary Clinton to become the Democratic presidential nominee. He easily defeated Republican candidate John McCain and became the first African American president. In 2009 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.
- Obama, Barack on britannica.com
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