Text Editor: Don Beaulieu

Photo Editors: Miranda Harple and Jane A. Martin

Barack Obama’s historic journey to the White House is as unusual as his culturally diverse heritage. From humble upbringings in Hawaii to the rarefied circles at the Harvard Law Review to the rough-and-tumble streets of Chicago’s South Side to the halls of Congress, Obama paved a path of firsts to the U.S. presidency like no other.

 

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