when is it coming out and tell us about the book. >> sally jacob's look the other barack is coming outin july of this year and this is a book as the subtitle couldn't say it better, the bold and reckless life of president obama's father. sally jacobs was a longtime correspondent at the "boston globe" and she said, she kind of did a profile of obama in kenya but all through the phone, not really deep enough. she said if he is elected i'm going to pursue the story. she had never done a book for -- before. she has been to kenya many times and talk to everyone that knew barack obama senior and she has put together his life story in a way that is riveting, arresting, revealing and i say, i can't know this but i think if president obama read this book he would learn things about his father that he doesn't know. and i think it is an amazing contribution to our knowledge of the president and his family. >> what is it like editing a journal? >> well, it is an interesting process. journalists on the one hand can write very fluidly and they are used to the idea of changes in rewrites, so they are

weinberg, who's a publicker of public awares books and over here on your board, i want to talk about sally jacobs new book "the other barack" when is this coming out? >> "the other barack" is coming out in july this year. this is a book as the subtitle couldn't say it better. the bold and reckless life of his father. she said when she -- she did a profile of, you know, obama and kenya, but all through the phone. not really the deep enough. she said if he's elected, i'm going to go and pursue the story. she had never done a book, or a story she felt that committed to. but she has been to kenya many times, talked to everyone that knew barack obama senior and she has put the story and rivetting i say i can't really know this. you know, president obama read this book, he would things about his father that he doesn't know. i think it's an amazing contribution to our knowledge of the president and his family. >> what's it like editing a journal? >> well, it's an interesting process. journalist on the one hand can write very fluidly, and they are used to the idea of changes and rewrites. so, you know, t

sally jacob is a correspondent at the boston globe, and she did a profile of obama and kenya, but notlly deep enough, and she said if he is elected. i'm going to pursue this story. she has been to kenya many times. she has talked to everyone that knew barack obama senior, and she has put together his life story in a way that is riveting, arresting, revealing, and i say i can't really know this but i think if president obama read this book, he would learn things about his father he doesn't know. i think it's an amazing contribution to our knowledge of the president and his family. >> what's it like editing a journalist? >> well, it's an interesting process. journalist on the one hand can write very fluidly, and they're used to the idea of changes and rewrites. so, they're not kind of hugging their precious prose, but sometimes the arc of a book verse of the arc of a series of feature stories can be very different, and i think our editors find that's the think they work on, the arc. the arc of this book is on barack obama, sr., his childhood in kenya, his time in the u.s. which includes