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A Promised Land is a memoir by Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. Published on November 17, 2020, it is the first of a planned two-volume series.
June 26, 2015 was one of those days—the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in favor of same-sex marriage, President Obama’s eulogized Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who was killed alongside eight of his parishioners at Mother Emanuel AME, and the White House lit up in rainbow colors in recognition of marriage equality.
Dec 8, 2020 · Mr. Obama wrote “A Promised Land” — the first of two volumes about his presidency — much the same way he’s worked on speeches and earlier books. Because he thinks the computer can lend ...
Oct 26, 2020 · Read an Exclusive Excerpt from Barack Obama’s New Memoir, “A Promised Land” | The New Yorker. Annals of the Presidency. A President Looks Back on His Toughest Fight. The story behind the...
Nov 17, 2020 · The former president's highly anticipated memoir harkens back to this vision of the country—one that offers a nuanced yet affirming narrative about America.
Nov 15, 2020 · Nearly every president since Theodore Roosevelt has written a memoir that covers his years in office; this one contains some inevitable moments of reputation-burnishing and legacy-shaping,...
A Promised Land is the first volume of Barack Obama's widely anticipated presidential memoir. In it, he details his political rise, the 2008 campaign for president, and what his administration accomplished in their first 2.5 years in office.
Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of...
About A Promised Land. A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND PEOPLE
Nov 12, 2020 · Barack Obama is as fine a writer as they come. It is not merely that this book avoids being ponderous, as might be expected, even forgiven, of a hefty memoir, but that it is nearly always...
