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- Product code: 215906
- ISBN: 1847670350,
ISBN13: 9781847670359,
384 pages, hardback
Published by Canongate Books on 2007
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Description of The Audacity of Hope |
At the heart of The Audacity of Hope is Senator Obama?s vision of how his country can move beyond its divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families and the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and considers the nature of threats from outside America?s borders. By returning to the principles that gave birth to the US Constitution, he says, Americans have a chance to repair a political process that is broken, and restore to working order a government that has fallen dangerously out of touch with millions of ordinary Americans.
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Reviews'Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois and the Democratic Party's new rock star, is that rare politician who can actually write - and write movingly and genuinely about himself.' New York Times
'The most exciting politician of the day.' Independent
'One of the best writers to enter modern politics.' Newsweek.com
'In our lowdown, dispiriting era, Obama's talent for proposing humane, sensible solutions with uplifting elegant prose does fills one with hope. Someday, it may even help him get elected president.' Washington Post
'Obama's ascent has been little short of miraculous . . . To some, Obama not only provides a new narrative for a nation at war with the world and at war with itself - he personifies it.' Guardian
'Alone among contemporary politicians, Obama has shown a great potential to break the current red−blue stalemate and construct a new politics that is progressive but grounded in civic traditions.' New York Review of Books
| About Barack Obama |
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu in 1961. In his early twenties he found his vocation working among poor communities on the south side of Chicago. Later he went to law school at Harvard University, where he became the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. In 1995 he published his memoir Dreams from My Father, which became a bestseller soon after it was reissued in 2004. After returning to Chicago, he was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996. Barack Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and later that year he was elected to the US Senate. His second book, The Audacity of Hope, was published in 2006 and became an immediate bestseller. In November 2008 Senator Obama beat John McCain to become the 44th President of the United States of America. He is married to Michelle, with whom he has two daughters, Sasha and Malia.
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