Barack Obama is the junior U.S. senator from Illinois. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Michelle, and two daughters.
"He is one of the best writers to enter modern politics”—Jonathan
Alter, Newsweek
"[Barack Obama] is that rare politician who can actually write—and
write movingly and genuinely about himself. . . . In these pages he
often speaks to the reader as if he were an old friend from back in
the day, salting policy recommendations with colorful asides about
the absurdities of political life. . . . [He] strives in these
pages to ground his policy thinking in simple common sense . . .
while articulating these venomous pre-election days, but also in
these increasingly polarized and polarizing times."—Michiko
Katutani, The New York Times
"[Few] on the partisan landscape can discuss the word 'hope' in a
political context and be regarded as the least bit sincere. Obama
is such a man, and he proves it by employing a fresh and buoyant
vocabulary to scrub away some of the toxins from contemporary
political debate. Those polling categories that presume to define
the vast chasm between us do not, Obama reminds us, add up to the
sum of our concerns or hint at where our hearts otherwise intersect
. . . Obama advances ordinary words like 'empathy', 'humility',
'grace' and 'balance' into the extraordinary context of 2006's
hyper-agitated partisan politics. The effect is not only refreshing
but also hopeful. . . . As you might anticipate from a former civil
lawyer and a university lecturer on constitutional law, Obama
writes convincingly about race as well as the lofty place the
Constitution holds in American life...He writes tenderly about
family and knowingly about faith." —Los Angeles Times
"What's impressive about Obama is an intelligence that his new
books diplays in aubundance." —Washington Post Book World
"An upbeat view of the country's potential and a political
biography that concentrates on the senator's core values." —Chicago
Tribune
“The self-portrait is appealing. It presents a man of relative
youth yet maturity, a wise observer of the human condition, a
figure who possesses perseverance and writing skills that have
flashes of grandeur. Obama also demonstrates a wry sense of
humor…His particular upbringing gives him special insights into the
transition of American politics in the 1960s and ’70s from debates
over economic principles to a focus on culture and morality, and
into the divisiveness, polarization and incivility that accompanied
this transition.”—Gary Hart, The New York Times Book Review
“America’s founders set a high standard for political writing, and
most contemporary efforts fall woefully short. How nice, then, to
have a politician who can write as well as U.S. Sen. Barack Obama
of Illinois. … The Audacity of Hope … is fascinating in its
revelation of Obama as someone who considers and questions, rather
than asserts and declares. In nine focused chapters, Obama shows
himself an agile thinker. This is an idea book, not a public-policy
primer.”—Elizabeth Taylor, Philadelphia Daily News
“Not only is Obama a good writer, his mind is top-shelf, his heart
tender.”—Les Payne, Newsday
“A thoughtful, careful analysis of what needs to be done to
preserve our freedoms in a time of terror.”—Newton N. Minow,
Chicago Tribune
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"He is one of the best writers to enter modern
politics"-Jonathan Alter, Newsweek
"[Barack Obama] is that rare politician who can actually write-and
write movingly and genuinely about himself. . . . In these pages he
often speaks to the reader as if he were an old friend from back in
the day, salting policy recommendations with colorful asides about
the absurdities of political life. . . . [He] strives in these
pages to ground his policy thinking in simple common sense . . .
while articulating these venomous pre-election days, but also in
these increasingly polarized and polarizing times."-Michiko
Katutani, The New York Times
"[Few] on the partisan landscape can discuss the word 'hope' in a
political context and be regarded as the least bit sincere. Obama
is such a man, and he proves it by employing a fresh and buoyant
vocabulary to scrub away some of the toxins from contemporary
political debate. Those polling categories that presume to define
the vast chasm between us do not, Obama reminds us, add up to the
sum of our concerns or hint at where our hearts otherwise intersect
. . . Obama advances ordinary words like 'empathy', 'humility',
'grace' and 'balance' into the extraordinary context of 2006's
hyper-agitated partisan politics. The effect is not only refreshing
but also hopeful. . . . As you might anticipate from a former civil
lawyer and a university lecturer on constitutional law, Obama
writes convincingly about race as well as the lofty place the
Constitution holds in American life...He writes tenderly about
family and knowingly about faith." -Los Angeles Times
"What's impressive about Obama is an intelligence that his
new books diplays in aubundance." -Washington Post Book
World
"An upbeat view of the country's potential and a political
biography that concentrates on the senator's core values."
-Chicago Tribune
"The self-portrait is appealing. It presents a man of relative
youth yet maturity, a wise observer of the human condition, a
figure who possesses perseverance and writing skills that have
flashes of grandeur. Obama also demonstrates a wry sense of
humor...His particular upbringing gives him special insights into
the transition of American politics in the 1960s and '70s from
debates over economic principles to a focus on culture and
morality, and into the divisiveness, polarization and incivility
that accompanied this transition."-Gary Hart, The New York
Times Book Review
"America's founders set a high standard for political writing, and
most contemporary efforts fall woefully short. How nice, then, to
have a politician who can write as well as U.S. Sen. Barack Obama
of Illinois. ... The Audacity of Hope ... is fascinating in its
revelation of Obama as someone who considers and questions, rather
than asserts and declares. In nine focused chapters, Obama shows
himself an agile thinker. This is an idea book, not a public-policy
primer."-Elizabeth Taylor, Philadelphia Daily
News
"Not only is Obama a good writer, his mind is
top-shelf, his heart tender."-Les Payne, Newsday
"A thoughtful, careful analysis of what needs to be done to
preserve our freedoms in a time of terror."-Newton N. Minow,
Chicago Tribune
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