NPC Headliners Book Event: "Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama"

Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian David J. Garrow will share his latest book, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, at a National Press Club Headliners Event on Thursday, May 11 at 6:30 p.m. in the club’s conference rooms.

Garrow spent nine years and interviewed more than a thousand people to shed light on the influences that helped shape Obama’s development on his road to the White House.

This event will feature a discussion with the author, an audience question-and-answer session, and a book signing. Tickets are $5 for Press Club members and $10 for the public. Copies of the book can be purchased online at the same time as tickets or at the event. No outside books or memorabilia are permitted. Proceeds from this event benefit the non-profit affiliate of the Club, the National Press Club Journalism Institute, which offers innovative, practical training to journalists and communications professionals working in a rapidly-changing media environment.

Garrow’s prior books include Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade, a comprehensive history of the American reproductive rights struggle, and Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award.