Barack Obama: The pursuit of identity

Presidential by The Washington Post

Oct 30, 201656:14News & Politics

Political strategist David Axelrod and biographer David Maraniss discuss Barack Obama's search for identity -- and how that quest has paralleled America's own complex reckoning with race.

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