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The online version doesn’t do it justice. Vanity Fair almost never, I mean, never prints a lengthy article page after page after page, even with the pictures. Usually, you get three, maybe four pages of narrative in a row and then you have to jump to the back of the book.
But this expose of Barack Obama in the March Vanity Fair goes on for several consecutive pages. If you’re a tactile person, go to the bookstore or library and check it out. There are several photos too that you’ve probably never seen before and an additional online-only slideshow here.
True to its title, Raising Obama, there is a lot of information about Barack Obama’s mother. I enjoyed reading the article very much.
A peek: Barack Obama is barely a year older than I am and he was in law school exactly when I was. So, I can really relate to what this paragraph describes, about a teenager, like me, who wrapped up high school by 1980:
The story of Barack Obama’s adolescent struggle with his racial identity, his disquiet, his dabbling with marijuana and cocaine, is by now well known, and well told in Dreams from My Father. His personal page in the Punahou senior yearbook includes not only a picture of him in full Saturday Night Fever leisure suit and wide collar but also a photographic still life of a beer bottle and a pack of Zig-Zag rolling papers. When I mentioned this, Obama laughed and said, “Right, and I’m sure if my mother had had any clue what that was, she would not have been pleased.”
Laughing for those of us of that certain age. We know exactly what that must look like without any picture in the magazine.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:36 pm February 18th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Parenting, Politics, WH2008
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