This is David Maraniss

[grantcart]

This is David Maraniss.



This is the guy who is writing the biography of President Obama that has guys like Ben Smith all excited.

As Ben Smith relates David Maraniss "finds that race, central to Obama’s later thought and included in the subtitle of his memoir, wasn’t a central factor in his Hawaii youth or the existential struggles of his young adulthood".

While a young Barack Obama was trying to figure out how a person who is raised by a white mother and grandparents and appears black to an unknowing world Maraniss was struggling with, er covering high school football in Wisconsin.

This is the guy who has set the political bobble heads all a twitter because he is giving a penetrating analysis of how deep an existential crises a non white kid can go through in America and how the President is just faking it in his books.

While Maraniss may not APPEAR on the surface to have any expertise in the matter he did give a lecture at BROWN university. He also got on a plane and flew to Africa.

Thought you might need a good laugh.

[annabanana]

1. guy actually looks like tucker carlson..

(upper class inbreeding probably)

[Blue_Tires]

2. FWIW his biography on Roberto Clemente was sublime...