Books: A Promised Land by Barack Obama, Viking
Reader's Digest India|December 2020
Barack Obama’s biography is nothing if not unique, and in A Promised Land, his 768-page memoir, the former US president tells us his story with trademark eloquence and restraint.
Books: A Promised Land by Barack Obama, Viking

Taking us from his childhood to May 2011—the month he ensured Osama bin Laden was killed in his Abbottabad hideout—Obama thoughtfully reflects on his life and political career. Given the antagonism of Donald Trump, his White-House successor, it is hard not to feel nostalgic about USA’s Obama years, but the book itself never panders to wistfulness; it trades indulgence for a refreshing objectivity. Though the first of his two-volume memoir is ostensibly about the past, Obama does afford us hope for the future.

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