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Apr 2nd, 2009  |  Categories:  from-the-cover
Barack Obama
I bring this up because there’s an assumption in rites of passage that growing up is just a function of age; that becoming an adult is an inevitable and natural progression. But in fact, I know a whole lot of thirty-year-olds and forty-year-olds and fifty-year-olds who are not yet full-grown. And if you talk to my wife, she’ll tell you that there are times when I do not put aside childish things; when I continually struggle to rise above the selfish or the petty or the small. So even today, …

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He served as the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 2005 until November 2008, when he resigned following his election to the presidency. Obama holds 2 Grammy Awards for audiobook versions of his books, Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope. Saying that “we can neither retreat from the world nor try to bully it into submission”, he calls on Americans to “lead the world, by deed and by example”.