READS: "A Singular Woman" - Author: Janny Scott

Frequently listed as "a white woman from Kansas" or "an anthropologist" and often more a footnote than a person, President Obama's mother Stanley Ann Dunham was a facinating woman.  Whether you agree with her parenting techniques or not, her child IS the President.

See NPRs take on it:
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/03/135840068/the-singular-woman-who-raised-barack-obama