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Barack Obama: the college years
In 1979, he was an 18-year-old freshman who liked Earth, Wind & Fire and wore silly hats. David Maraniss' new biography reveals how Barry from Honolulu became Barack, president of the United States
Lisa Jack's college portrait of Obama. Click on picture for full image. Photograph: Lisa Jack/Getty Images
Obama with former lover Genevieve Cook. He is very beautiful, Cook wrote in her diary. Oooooo, I cant wait to be in Brooklyn with spring coming.
Obama with his father, Barack Obama, Sr. Photograph: Obama For America
On the beach in Honolulu
Pumping the pedals during his childhood in Hawaii
Kindergarten class photo from Noelani school in Hawaii with young Barack on far left, third row from the bottom
Stepfather Lolo Soetoro with his wife Ann Dunham, Barack's mother, his half sister Maya and Barack
The one and only time father and son met after Baracks parents split during his infancy was when Barack Sr came to Honolulu for a Christmas visit in 1971. Taken at the airport in Hawaii when Barack Jr was 10
Obamas name in concrete outside the Punahou cafeteria. The story goes that one of his friends scratched his name there to get him in trouble
Fifth grade class photo from Punahou, Hawaii. Barack is top row, third from left. His first teacher, Mabel Hefty, had travelled the world and spent a year teaching in Kenya. When she learned that 'Barrys' Kenyan father was visiting Honolulu, she invited him to speak to the class
With his senior state basketball championship team for Punahou School in 1979. Obama is in the back row, last player on the right
Obama would complain that he did not get enough playing time because he played a 'black' style of basketball. In fact, he was one of the few players on the team who could not jump high enough to dunk the ball
The Choom Gang, a group of boys at Punshou school. Choom was a verb meaning to smoke marijuana. Barack (middle right) was part of the gang, who's lingo included the hand gesture V for veto
1970s homeroom photo, with Barack standing, middle of back row, dressed as John Travolta
Posing for a portrait session when he was a student in 1980 at Occidental College in Los Angeles
With girlfriend Genevieve Cook, an Australian who had studied in the US and shared his love of writing
With his maternal grandparents Stanley Armour Dunham and Madelyn Dunham in New York City in the 1980s
Photographs taken from Barack Obama: The Making Of The Man, by David Maraniss, published next week by Atlantic Books
In 1979, he was an 18-year-old freshman who liked Earth, Wind & Fire and wore silly hats. David Maraniss' new biography reveals how Barry from Honolulu became Barack, president of the United States
Lisa Jack's college portrait of Obama. Click on picture for full image. Photograph: Lisa Jack/Getty Images
Obama with former lover Genevieve Cook. He is very beautiful, Cook wrote in her diary. Oooooo, I cant wait to be in Brooklyn with spring coming.
Obama with his father, Barack Obama, Sr. Photograph: Obama For America
On the beach in Honolulu
Pumping the pedals during his childhood in Hawaii
Kindergarten class photo from Noelani school in Hawaii with young Barack on far left, third row from the bottom
Stepfather Lolo Soetoro with his wife Ann Dunham, Barack's mother, his half sister Maya and Barack
The one and only time father and son met after Baracks parents split during his infancy was when Barack Sr came to Honolulu for a Christmas visit in 1971. Taken at the airport in Hawaii when Barack Jr was 10
Obamas name in concrete outside the Punahou cafeteria. The story goes that one of his friends scratched his name there to get him in trouble
Fifth grade class photo from Punahou, Hawaii. Barack is top row, third from left. His first teacher, Mabel Hefty, had travelled the world and spent a year teaching in Kenya. When she learned that 'Barrys' Kenyan father was visiting Honolulu, she invited him to speak to the class
With his senior state basketball championship team for Punahou School in 1979. Obama is in the back row, last player on the right
Obama would complain that he did not get enough playing time because he played a 'black' style of basketball. In fact, he was one of the few players on the team who could not jump high enough to dunk the ball
The Choom Gang, a group of boys at Punshou school. Choom was a verb meaning to smoke marijuana. Barack (middle right) was part of the gang, who's lingo included the hand gesture V for veto
1970s homeroom photo, with Barack standing, middle of back row, dressed as John Travolta
Posing for a portrait session when he was a student in 1980 at Occidental College in Los Angeles
With girlfriend Genevieve Cook, an Australian who had studied in the US and shared his love of writing
With his maternal grandparents Stanley Armour Dunham and Madelyn Dunham in New York City in the 1980s
Photographs taken from Barack Obama: The Making Of The Man, by David Maraniss, published next week by Atlantic Books
