Date 03/05/2017 - News People
A new biography is shedding light on Barack Obama's personal history. In Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, author David J. Garrow claims that there was another prominent relationship in the future president's life -- and that Obama even asked this woman to marry him. The book alleges that Obama twice proposed to Sheila Miyoshi Jager -- a former student of anthropology, currently a professor at Oberlin College -- in the years before he met Michelle Robinson. "In the winter of '86, when we visited my parents, he asked me to marry him," Jager tells Garrow, according to The Washington Post.
