Yes We Can

In third grade Barack Obama wrote an essay entitled I Want to Become President - and he is to this day determined to show the world that yes he can. Born in the USA the son of an African father and an American mother a boy who spent his childhood in Indonesia and Hawaii Barack Obama is truly a citizen of the world. His campaign for the presidency is powered by a fierce optimism an exuberant sense of purpose and determination and above all a belief that change can happen.Garen Thomas takes us through the life of Barack Obama from his struggle to fit in with his classmates and concern about not knowing his biological father through his term as Illinois senator to his historic and momentum-building run for president of the United States.Barack Obama is a man who uses his words to inspire us. We can have a better future. We can be whatever we want to be. Yes. We. Can.