Man, my father, who I'm pretty sure did not vote for Obama but who respects him (I think he respected him a lot more than McCain by the end of the campaign, and that's hard for him to say because he's a longtime McCain supporter) -- anyway, my father has been reading this book and was talking to me about it, and I was mildly shamed because I haven't read it (and it hadn't occurred to me) and really know very little about the new president's life. I had a prejudice against campaign biographies, but I now realize this isn't your run of the mill book of the kind and I'm planning to pick it up.