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Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

by Barack Obama (Author)

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Synopsis

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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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 375
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 10 May 2007
ISBN 10: 1847670350
ISBN 13: 9781847670359
Prizes: Shortlisted for Galaxy British Book Awards: Borders Author of the Year 2009.

Media Reviews
You can sense instinctively why Obama invites devotion. -- Peter Preston * * Oberver * *
...offers readers on this side of the Atlantic a window not just into the mind of one of America's most exciting politicians, but into the political landscope of the post-Bush era . . . -- David Lammy * * Guardian * *
At a time when America's standing in the world has sunk to unprecedented depths... his book aims at a missile of decency at the White House. -- Nicolas Shakespeare * * Telegraph * *
It conveys a rare frankness and humility. The Audacity of Hope is light years ahead of his rivals -- Mary Fitzgerald * * New Statesman * *
...a model of how a political book for a mass market ought to be written. * * Guardian * *
An essential book for anyone who would like to know about what the man, who could well be the next president of the United States, in thinking. -- Alice Oswald * * Insight * *
Author Bio
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.