{"product_id":"a-singular-woman-isbn-9781594485596","title":"A Singular Woman","description":"\u003cb\u003e The \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller-an unprecedented look into  the life and character of the woman who raised a president. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarack Obama has written extensively about his father but credited  his mother for \"what is best in me.\" Still, little is known about this  fiercely independent, spirited woman who raised the man who became the  first biracial president of the United States. This book is that story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Singular Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e  reporter Janny Scott tells the story of this unique woman, Stanley Ann  Dunham, who broke many of the rules of her time, and shows how her  fierce example helped influence the future president-and can serve as  an inspiration to us all.\u003c\/p\u003e“An ambitious new biography. . . . Scott pursues a more perplexing and elusive figure than the one Obama pieced together in his own books.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Even Obama knew that he had not his extraordinary mother justice. Janny Scott . . . does. She portrays Dunham as a feminist, an utterly independent spirit, a cultural anthropologies, and an international development officer who surely helped shape the internationalist, post-Vietnam-era world view of her son. Scott’s book is tirelessly researched, and the sections covering Dunham’s life in Indonesia especially are new and valuable to the accumulating biography of Obama’s extended global family.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Janny Scott packs two and a half years of research into her bio of Stanley Ann Dunham, the quixotic anthropologist who raised a president.”—\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “The restrained, straight-ahead focus—rather in the spirit, it turns out, of Dunham herself—pays off. By recovering Obama’s mother from obscurity, \u003ci\u003eA Singular Woman\u003c\/i\u003e adds in a meaningful way to an understanding of a singular president.”—\u003ci\u003eSlate \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The key to understanding the disciplined and often impassive 44th president is his mother, as Janny Scott, a reporter for the New York Times, decisively demonstrates in her new biography\u003ci\u003e A Singular Woman\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . Scott [uses] meticulous reporting, archival research and extensive interviews with Dunham’s colleagues, friends and family, including the president and his sister. What emerges is a portrait of a woman who is both disciplined and disorganized, blunt-spoken and empathetic, driven and devoted to her children, even as she ruefully admits her failings and frets over her distance from them.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Meticulously-researched and well-written . . . a necessary counterpart and corrective to Obama’s first book \u003ci\u003eDreams from my Father\u003c\/i\u003e.”—\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In her own right, Ann Dunham was a fascinating woman. . . . The story of the ‘singular woman’ at the center of this book is told, and told well, by Scott.”—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “What emerges in this straightforward, deeply reported account is a complicated portrait of an outspoken, independent-minded woman with a life of unconventional choices.”—\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“We get a much fuller story of Ms. Dunham’s life in \u003ci\u003eA Singular Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, Janny Scott’s richly researched, unsentimental book.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e“If you want to understand what shaped our president, don’t look to his father’s disappearance. It was his unconventional mother who made him. . . . [An] incisive biography.”—\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A richly nuanced, decidedly sympathetic portrait of President Obama’s remarkably accomplished, spirited mother. . . . A biography of considerable depth and understanding.”—\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Scott gives us a vivid, affecting profile of an unsung feminist pioneer who made breaking down barriers a family tradition and whose legacy extends well beyond her presidential son.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanny Scott\u003c\/b\u003e was a reporter for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e from  1994 to 2009, when she left to write this book. She was a member of the  \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e reporting team that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for  national reporting.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304804536549,"sku":"NP9781594485596","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781594485596.jpg?v=1767720793","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-singular-woman-isbn-9781594485596","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}