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Summary: A Promised Land: Barack Obama
Summary: A Promised Land: Barack Obama
Summary: A Promised Land: Barack Obama
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Warning: This is a summary book, intended to harmonize with Barack Obama’s compelling story, A Promised Land, not to replace it. 
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making, A Promised Land arises from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.
Barack Obama relates his unlikely journey starting as a young boy in Indonesia and Hawaii. His time in prep school showed more passion for his jump-shot and partying than studying. We experience his college years under the admitted influence of Marxism and into Harvard Law and as the President of the Law Review-- which would launch his political career with a substantial write-up in The New York Times. 
 In the stirring, the highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from a young man searching for his identity to the 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 presidency—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 nation’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 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 devastating Deepwater Horizon blowout, and authorizes Operation Neptune’s Spear, which leads to the death of Osama bin Laden.
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 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 progress is always possible inside the great, ongoing American experiment.
This beautifully written and powerful book captures Barack Obama’s conviction that democracy is not a gift from on high. Still, something founded on empathy and common understanding built together, day by day.

 
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Release dateDec 11, 2020
ISBN9791220236027
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Campbell Scott

Best Seller Summaries offer an easy, painless, and affordable way to keep up with the world and its hottest non-fiction topics. Choose from ebook, printed, and audio formats. The main author and editor earned a Biology degree, Summa Cum Laude, a physiology degree, and a doctorate from prestigious universities. Tops among his signature skills is his ability to recognize intricate patterns that oversee various fields: technology, politics, behavioral psychology, ideologies, especially religions, social studies, evolution, philosophy, financial markets, and government.

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