Barack Obama's election is what inspired me to read International Relations & Politics at university, and he remains an incredibly inspiring person to me and I have everything crossed that he'll get to stay in the White House for four more years. These feelings have only increased since I read Dream...
Interesting stories about his life- well written. He's well spoken, sounds friendly and down to earth, and I like the way he thinks. I do wonder, as one would when reading a book like this, how much is pure, unadulterated Barack Obama and how much is politician with something to gain by saying the "...
Great material and interesting, but overall told from too detached a point of view. Many times I was left with the impression: "Well that was interesting, but so what? What does it mean - emotionally, socially, and politically?" It's a great set of experiences but its not really tied into a cohesive...
I enjoyed this book. Obama's writing, as usual, is clear and accessible. His hopes for changing the partisanship in D.C. seem genuine, if a bit naive. A large part of the book reads like a long campaign speech. That's okay, I agree with most of what he proposes. But I wonder how much it would c...
Although I haven't read this yet, I took a really good gander at the illustrations today which are absolutely amazing. I've never seen so many different races represented in a children's book before. It was so hard to find something like that when I was a child, I was both surprised and impressed by...
I knew there was no way I'd ever read this whole thing in print, so I listened to the abridged audio book. It's read by the author, and it felt cozy to sit here right in my own home and have Mr. President tell me all about the first 20-some years of his life. This was written way back when "Barry" ...
Obama's autobiography to 1995. It's a little dry at times, though all of the content is interesting. Since he wrote it before his presidential bid, it's much less guarded/sanitized than it could have been if written later. He describes a lot of the phenomena associated with being black or multiracia...
I learned quite a bit about our President's history reading this book. I particularly enjoyed his time meeting family in Kenya. Barack Obama is human, obviously, and reading this explores his many emotions and thoughts regarding race, poverty, and moral issues. I recommend this to all!
So far, quite interesting. Giving me a look at our President's background that I shamefully was ignorant of :/Fav. Quote so far: "“Sometimes you can’t worry about hurt. Sometimes you worryonly about getting where you have to go.”
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