THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 5“BARACK OBAMA IS AS
FINE A WRITER AS THEY COME.”
—CHIMAMANDANGOZI ADICHIE,THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“[T]hebest-written
presidentialmemoir
Ihaveread.”
—FAREED ZAKARIA,
THE WASHINGTON POST“A Promised Landisa
bookwe’llallbe
betterforreading.”
—SEIJA RANKIN,
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY“[A]must-readforallthose
whowonderwhycharacter
mattersandwhattrue
patriotismlookslike.”
—LEIGH HABER,
O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE“[A]moving,beautifully
writtenmemoir.”
—PETER BERGEN, CNN.COM“[I]ndisputablyabookbytheauthorofDreams from My Father...theex-presidenthaspreserved
hisinnerlife,andwithithisliterarylight.”—GEORGE PACKER,THE ATLANTIC
“Extraordinary...amasterfulrenderingofyourpresidencyandlife.”
—OPRAH WINFREY DURINGTHE OPRAH CONVERSATIONON APPLETV+“BarackObamaknowshowtotellagoodstory.”
—JUSTIN WORLAND,TIME“Thissterlingaccount
risesabovethecrowded
fieldofpresidential
postmortems.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY“Atop-notchpolitical
memoirandserious
exerciseinpracticalpolitics
foreveryreader.”
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A NEWYORKTIMES TOP 10 BOOK of 2020
“[A]storyofaspirationandtransformation.”
—KAITLIN BYRD,THEBOSTONGLOBE