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From Kansas to Washington, Barack Obama's 'Story'

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Family Portrait

President Obama's great-grandparents Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham and Ruth Armour Dunham, with their children Stanley and Ralph Jr. (clockwise from top left). In "The Story," David Maraniss writes "the unraveling of the family came shortly after this portrait was taken when Ruth killed herself in Topeka, Kan."