hardly knowing his own father and who by his own account didn t find his way until his late teens. he writes about that as well as how he balanced governing on being a husband and a dad in the book the promiseland. he was visiting with a group of young men who was part of my brother s keeper who talked about their lives and the challenges they face. are you going back to community organizing? well, i probably i m a little too gray-haired and old to be going door to door like i used to be and plus secret service still follows me around so i m pretty disriuptive, but am going back to what inspired me to get into public life. one of the things that inspires former president barack obama these days are meetings like this one. hey, people! ? hey, hey. it s called a bam circle. bam stands for becoming a man, a