Before winning the Illinois State Senate race in 1996 from the south side Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park, Barack Obama worked as a community organizer, a civil rights attorney and also taught at the University of Chicago Law School. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2004.
Obama’s first book, published in 1995, is an autobiography - Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. He won a Grammy for the audio version of the book. His second book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, was published in October 2006
On January 20, 2009 Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in to office as the 44th President of the United States. This historic event was the largest inaugural celebration in the history of our country. |