LFPL's At the Library Series

Award-winning reporter Janny Scott's latest book explores the life of the woman who most shaped Barack Obama - his mother. A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother follows the life of Stanley Ann Dunham, from Kansas and Washington state to Hawaii and Indonesia. Compiled from nearly two hundred interviews with Dunham's friends, colleagues, and relatives (including both her children), personal and professional papers, letters to friends, and photo albums, the book uncovers the full breadth of this woman's inspiring and nontraditional life, and shows the remarkable extent to which she shaped the man Obama is today.