- otus
- June 1, 2012
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In the forthcoming biography " Barack Obama: The Story ," due in bookstores June 19, David Maraniss tells the largely untold story of Obama's family, his life growing up in Hawaii and Indonesia, his journey through college in California and New York and his years as a community organizer on the South side of Chicago. Some of the details from the book have already been released, including sections about Obama's pot-smoking school days in Hawaii and stories about his early girlfriends, but the book, obtained by Yahoo News, is full of stories about Obama's past (even if Obama doesn't show up in the book until page 165). Here are 20 details from Obama's life detailed in Maraniss' book: 1. Maraniss suggests that Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr., may have abused Obama's mother. "There is no direct evidence that Obama hit Ann. She never talked about it to her son or family, and in retrospect always tried to give...