America, the taliban and the war throughout and i feared nigel hamilton, the mental of command. Fbi award in 1940 to 1942. Walter isakson, the innovators. How group of inventors, hackers and eakes created the digital revolution. I wanted to look at how we people invented the computer and the internet and how innovation really happened in the digital age. In was something that came out of steve jobs and before that lj to say who made that type of person, how did they have not been successful . The book is not about singular people, but about the team. About collaboration. One of the things i discovered in doing this book is real innovation comes from great teams, not just great leaders. In the 2014 long list for nonfiction also include john mark, tennessee williams, not pilgrimage of the flash, age of ambition, chasing fortune commensurate than faith in the new china and matthew stewart, nation scott, the radical origins of the american republic. By the lame card sat on the table here.
My story actually began was about 50 years ago when my father, barack obama, sr. , went to hawaii and thats where he met sally ann dunham, the president s mother, and they fell in love and got married. Shortly after that, barack was conceived, my brother, barack. My big brother, barack. After that they divorced as you know, and barack obama, sr. Went to harvard to pursue his doctorate in economics. At that time he met my mother in boston where she was teaching, and they fell in love. Love is a powerful thing because in 1964 there were all across current that were very, very difficult to maneuver and to deal with in terms of black and white and racial relations in the United States. Anyway, my father went back to kenya later that year and invited my mother to follow him, to get married, which she did. She tells me she remembers, you know, mark, when i decided to go to kenya, my grandma said you cant go there. They are all black. [laughter] but love was a powerful thing and they went and