An upcoming biography of President Obama explores his relationship with an ex-girlfriend, Genevieve Cook, while he lived in New York in the 1980s. Cook was mentioned in Obama’s memoir “Dreams from My Father,” though Obama says the character, identified as a “woman,” is a composite of a few people. Vanity Fair has an adopted excerpt from David Maraniss’s “Barack Obama: The Story.”
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