The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Book)

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• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Number of Pages: 448
• ISBN: 0307455874
• WAPI (Tower ID): 112146309
• Release Date: July 15, 2008
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In a few short years, Barack Obama went from being a relatively unknown freshman senator from Illinois to the successful candidate for the presidency in the 2008 election. His success is sometimes credited to his ability as a public speaker, as evidenced in his stunning keynote address at the 2004 Democratic convention. THE AUDACITY OF HOPE follows his best-selling DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, and it offers the visionary pragmatism of his speeches and the candor of his memoir. Each chapter is a developed essay, whether he is discussing partisanship in Washington, the values we have in common, or the importance of the Constitution. He also writes on the positive side of public service, the role that opportunity plays in America’s economic health, the enduring dilemma of race, America’s place in the world order, and last but not least, how he feels about his family. The personal side comes through in all as he tells anecdotes about the people and experiences that influenced his thought, and as he strives to connect equally to America’s founding principles, its rich history, and its future, which he believes in and which he will help shape.

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The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope going forward.

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BARACK OBAMA was elected President of the United States on November 4, 2008. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.

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“Barack Obama is that rare politician who can actually write—and write movingly and genuinely about himself.” —The New York Times

“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

“An upbeat view of the country's potential and a political biography that concentrates on the senator's core values.” —Chicago Tribune

"He is one of the best writers to enter modern politics." —Jonathan Alter, Newsweek.com

"What's impressive about Obama is an intelligence that his new books diplays in aubundance." —Washington Post Book World

“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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