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A Promised Land

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A Promised Land

by Barack Obama

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753 pages
Published
November 17, 2020
Publisher
Crown
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On Political Wire 9 posts

  • Dec 8, 2020
    A Presidential Memoir Unlike Any Other

    The New York Times reviews A Promised Land by Barack Obama.

  • Nov 24, 2020
    Obama Memoir Sold 1.7 Million Copies In First Week

    President Obama’s memoir A Promised Land had sold more than 1.7 million copies in its first week, The Hill reports.

  • Nov 19, 2020
    Obama’s Memoir Massively Outselling Clinton, Bush

    Barack Obama's A Promised Land sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours, putting it on track to be the best-selling presidential memoir in modern history.

  • Nov 13, 2020
    Obama Torches His Rivals

    Barack Obama writes in his new memoir that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has “discipline, shrewdness and shamelessness — all of which he employed in the single-minded and dispassionate pursuit of power," the HuffPost reports.

  • Nov 12, 2020
    A Promised Land

    The New York Times has an amazing review of A Promised Land:

  • Nov 12, 2020
    Quote of the Day

    "It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted. Which is exactly what Donald Trump understood when he started peddling assertions that I had not been born in the…

  • Nov 11, 2020
    Obama Memoir Out Next Week

    Out next week: A Promised Land by Barack Obama.

  • Oct 26, 2020
    A Promised Land

    The New Yorker has published the first excerpts of Barack Obama's memoir, A Promised Land.

  • Sep 17, 2020
    Obama Memoir Coming After Election

    Former President Barack Obama's memoir will be published in two volumes — with a 768-page Volume 1, A Promised Land, out November 17 in 25 languages.

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