Tom Shachtman

Biography: 
Tom Shachtman is the author of Airlift to America: How Barack Obama Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours (St. Martin’s Press, 2009).

Filter By:

Topic

Recent Commentary

Eighty-one students arrive in New York in 1959

Men with a Mission

by Tom Shachtmanvia Hoover Digest
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

The Scheinman collection brings to life the story of how two friends, a white American and a black Kenyan, helped African democracy bloom. By Tom Shachtman.

Articles