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I also want to thank Eithne McMenamin for serving as my guide at the state capitol in Springfield and Beth Milnikel for showing me around the University of Chicago Law School. Joan Walsh, Alison True, Anne Fitzgerald, and Lucinda Hahn are other editors who encouraged me to write about Obama. (Lucinda, I’m looking forward to seeing your memoir in print.) Jim Dye, my oldest friend, digitized the nine-year-old Obama interview tape I found in a desk drawer.
Finally, I want to thank my mother, Gail Kleine, for typing the manuscript, saving me a lot of time and money when both were in short supply. She worked as an editor after college and used those skills on this book, too. It is a better work because of her.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Edward McClelland lives in Chicago. His previous books include The Third Coast: Sailors, Strippers, Fishermen, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters, and God-Save-the-Queen Monarchists of the Great Lakes and Horseplayers: Life at the Track. A former staff writer for the Chicago Reader, he has contributed to the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Salon, Slate, and the Nation. He is currently working on a history of the Rust Belt, to be published by Bloomsbury Press. Find him on the Web at www.tedmcclelland.com.
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McClelland, Ted.
Young Mr. Obama : Chicago and the making of a black president / Edward McClelland. —1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-60819-060-7 (hardcover)
1. Obama, Barack. 2. Presidents—United States—Biography. 3. African American lawyers—Illinois—Chicago—Biography. 4. African American politicians—Illinois—Chicago—Biography. 5. African American legislators—Illinois—Biography. 6. Chicago (Ill—Politics and government—1951-7. Illinois—Politics and government—1951- I. Title.
E908.M39 2010
973.932092—dc22
[B]
2010007976
First published by Bloomsbury Press in 2010
This e-book edition published in 2010
E-book ISBN: 978-1-60819-384-4
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