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Janny Scott Writes The Untold Story Of Barack Obama’s Mother
By Anita Jones
Two Singular Women
During a pivotal time in history, when the world was focused on the son, Barack Obama, a photograph diverted journalist Janny Scott’s attention to the mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. I had done a fair amount of delving into tidbits of Ann’s life, enough to know that she was clearly a phenomenal woman.
I was also interested to know more about the woman who chose to write about her. Recently at the Ferry Plaza Book Passage in San Francisco, Janny granted me a fifteen-minute interview before talking about her new book,A Singular Woman, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother.
When we shook hands I immediately sensed, through her warm, bespectacled smile, that Janny Scott meets no strangers, as we say in southwest Georgia.
I got the feeling that this, coupled with her organized, focused professionalism, served her well in the two and a half years she spent
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Ann Dunham
American anthropologist, mother of Barack Obama (1942–1995)
Not to be confused with the equestrian Anne Dunham.
Stanley Ann Dunham (November 29, 1942 – November 7, 1995) was an American anthropologist who specialized in the economic anthropology and rural development of Indonesia.[1] She was the mother of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.
Born in Wichita, Kansas, Dunham studied at the East–West Center and at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Honolulu, where she attained a Bachelor of Arts grad in antropologi (1967),[2] and later received Master of Arts (1974) and PhD (1992) degrees, also in anthropology.[3] She also attended the University of Washington in Seattle from 1961 to 1962. Interested in craftsmanship, weaving, and the role of women in cottage industries, Dunham's research focused on women's work on the island of Java and blacksmithing in Indonesia. To address the problem of poverty in rural
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US President Barack Obama's Mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, Grew Up in Ponca City, Oklahoma
US President Barack Obama's Mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, Grew Up in Ponca City, Oklahoma
by Hugh Pickens, February 6, 2009
David Maraniss writes in his book "Into the Story: A Writer's Journey Through Life, Politics, Sports and Loss" that "of all the relationships in Obama's life, none was deeper, more complex, and more important than that with his mother." Although Obama lived under the same roof with his mother, Madelyn Dunham, for only twelve y