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Nov 15, 2020 · [The Best Books of 2020: View our full list.]. The most audacious thing about Barack Obama’s new memoir, “A Promised Land,” is the beaming portrait on its cover: There he is, the 44th ...
Nov 12, 2020 · A PROMISED LAND. By Barack Obama. 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 ...
May 2, 2004 · The Promised Land. MISSISSIPPI IN AFRICA. By Alan Huffman. 328 pp. New York: Gotham Books. $27. OF the many tragedies set in motion by the enslavement of African people in the United States, few ...
A Promised Land takes us from childhood to the May 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden, delving into certain events and decisions with a degree of detail that may lead some readers to wonder if there ...
A Promised Land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective—the story of one man’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 “hope and change,” and ...
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Nov 16, 2020 · A Promised Land. By Barack Obama. Crown: 768 pages, $45. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Reading ...
Nov 17, 2020 · In reading the book, or even in reading that last sentence, it's laughable to conjure a world in which Barack Obama had low approval ratings. But, ever humble, he plays devil's advocate there too ...
