But, as Vanity Fair‘s excerpt from Obama biographer David Maraniss‘ new book about the President shows, it turns out that “Genevieve,” the mysterious girlfriend in question, is actually a composite, ...

Genevieve Cook’s relationship with a young Barack Obama began in 1983 at a Christmas party in New York’s East Village. Obama was 22-years-old and a recent graduate of Columbia University. Cook was so ...

(CBS News) A new biography about President Obama sheds light on a little-known part of his life -- his college and post-college years in New York City -- through the letters and journals of two women ...

A new book sheds light on some of President Barack Obama’s early romances during his college and post-college years. The revelations came out in a Vanity Fair magazine article featuring excerpts from ...

(CBS News) A new biography of President Barack Obama has some people asking if anything in a president's past is off limits. Author David Maraniss relies heavily on the diaries, letters, and memories ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Genevieve Cook says she met the president at a Christmas party in 1983 when he was 22 years old. In an excerpt obtained by Vanity Fair Cook says she found Obama charming and alluring yet distant and ...

As the biographer of everyone from Roberto Clemente to Bill Clinton, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist David Maraniss is well acquainted with some of contemporary history’s most captivating figures.

David Maraniss, the Washington Post journalist, who has written memorable biographies of former President Bill Clinton and legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, has, as is his custom, found some ...