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Barack Obama had previously published two books. The memoir Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance was published in 1995 by Times Books and the political book The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream was published worldwide in 2006 by Crown Publishing Group.
Historical Dictionary of the Barack Obama Administration. ISBN 978-1538111512. Price, Joann F. (November 21, 2008). Barack Obama: The Voice of an American Leader. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-0-313-36237-8. Rall, Ted (June 19, 2012). The Book of Obama: From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 978-1-60980-451-0.
Barack Obama recounts how his parents met and his own life until his enrollment at Harvard Law School in 1988. His parents were Barack Obama Sr. of Kenya, and Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas, who had met while they were students at the University of Hawaii. In the first chapter, speaking of his father and namesake, Obama states "[h]e had left ...
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Former US president Barack Obama has released his summer reading list for 2024. Continuing an annual tradition he began in 2015 when he was still in the White House , the 44th president shared a ...
The title of The Audacity of Hope was derived from a sermon delivered by Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.Wright had attended a lecture by Frederick G. Sampson in Richmond, Virginia, in the late 1980s, on the G. F. Watts painting Hope, which inspired him to give a sermon in 1990 based on the subject of the painting – "with her clothes in rags, her body scarred and bruised and ...
2009-2015: Obama earned $400,000 a year as president and continued to earn book royalties, as well as interest on his investments. 2016-2017: Newsweek reported that Obama’s annual pension after ...
Obama: From Promise to Power is a 2007 political biography, written by David Mendell, of Barack Obama from his childhood to the announcement of his candidacy for president of the United States. The book focuses on Obama's fast rise from obscurity to the national stage, portraying it not as an unplanned phenomenon but rather as the result of a ...