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Happy Book Birthday President Barack Obama: A Promised Land šŸ„³

Happy Book Birthday Mr. President!Ā šŸ„³Ā Our Forever President Barack ObamaĀ just released the “first volume of his presidential memoirs” ā˜›A PROMISED LAND [pub: Crown] today. How awesome that this memoir by the first Black president of the United States dropped less than two weeks after the first Black woman, first woman, Kamala Harris, was officially elected as vice president of the United States. While I’m on the waitlist at my local library to stream the audiobook (as I must hear the cadence of Barack Obama reading his own wordsā€”oh, how I miss it!), the hardcover and audiobook are on sale today. Support local bookstores and libraries, please.

 

…I hope it inspires you to see yourself playing a role in shaping a better world.

ā€”Barack Obama on Twitter November 17, 2020

 

 

Barack Obama Tweets The Release Of A Promised Land

 

A Promised Land Synopsis From Penguin Random House:

In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidencyā€”a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.

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 November 4, 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nationā€™s highest office.

Reflecting on the presidency, he offers a unique and thoughtful exploration of both the awesome reach and the limits of presidential power, as well as singular insights into the dynamics of U.S. partisan politics and international diplomacy. Obama brings readers inside the Oval Office and the White House Situation Room, and to Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, and points beyond. We are privy to his thoughts as he assembles his cabinet, wrestles with a global financial crisis, takes the measure of Vladimir Putin, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds to secure passage of the Affordable Care Act, clashes with generals about U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, tackles Wall Street reform, responds to the devastatingĀ Deepwater HorizonĀ blowout, and authorizes Operation Neptuneā€™s Spear, which leads to the death of Osama bin Laden.

A Promised LandĀ is extraordinarily intimate and introspectiveā€”the story of one manā€™s bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage. Obama is candid about the balancing act of running for office as a Black American, bearing the expectations of a generation buoyed by messages of ā€œhope and change,ā€ and meeting the moral challenges of high-stakes decision-making. He is frank about the forces that opposed him at home and abroad, open about how living in the White House affected his wife and daughters, and unafraid to reveal self-doubt and disappointment. Yet he never wavers from his belief that inside the great, ongoing American experiment, progress is always possible.

This beautifully written and powerful book captures Barack Obamaā€™s conviction that democracy is not a gift from on high but something founded on empathy and common understanding and built together, day by day.

Peace, Love, & Beauty,
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