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  • We need more books like this, and men like Barack Obama, a true leader.

    Read it yourself and see why I leave it at that.

    

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  • Hope For The Future

  • Obama has sketched out his belief for his political career in this book. It has talked about things people were afraid to touch, and he has tried to face them with more positive thinking. He has said that he did not provide solutions for a lot of problems, but he has given people hope and positive d ... Continue

    Obama has sketched out his belief for his political career in this book. It has talked about things people were afraid to touch, and he has tried to face them with more positive thinking. He has said that he did not provide solutions for a lot of problems, but he has given people hope and positive directions to live for.

    I believe this book has helped him a lot during his campaign for the presidency. And I am amazed that he did not sway from what he has said in the book to his campaign. I have certainly hoped that he can lead America back to the right direction. It's about time for our generation to have a great man to guide us to the future.

    

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  • Amazing & Insightful book

  • This book is truly a window into the mind and knowledge of Sen. Barack Obama. He truly understands history, explains why he feels the way he does about political policy, and how he feels he can change American politics today- based on history, his own life experiences, as well as his personal intera ... Continue

    This book is truly a window into the mind and knowledge of Sen. Barack Obama. He truly understands history, explains why he feels the way he does about political policy, and how he feels he can change American politics today- based on history, his own life experiences, as well as his personal interactions with fellow Americans.

    This is a great read for anyone who is interested in learning more about this presidential candidate- composed by the Senator himself, and written BEFORE he was a presidential candidate.

    

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“A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won’t be pre-packaged, ready to pull off the shelf. It will have to be constructed from the best of our traditions and will have to account for the darker aspects of our past. We will need to understand just how we got to this place, this land of warring factions and tribal hatreds. And we’ll need to remind ourselves, despite all our differences, just how much we share: common hopes, common dreams, a bond that will not break.”
–from The Audacity of Hope


In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Senator Obama called “the audacity of hope.”

Now, in The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics–a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the “endless clash of armies” we see in congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of “our improbable experiment in democracy.” He explores those forces–from the fear of losing to the perpetual need to raise money to the power of the media–that can stifle even the best-intentioned politician. He also writes, with surprising intimacy and self-deprecating humor, about settling in as a senator, seeking to balance the demands of public service and family life, and his own deepening religious commitment.

At the heart of this book is Senator Obama’s vision of how we can move beyond our divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families, the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and the transnational threats–from terrorism to pandemic–that gather beyond our shores. And he grapples with the role that faith plays in a democracy–where it is vital and where it must never intrude. Underlying his stories about family, friends, members of the Senate, even the president, is a vigorous search for connection: the foundation for a radically hopeful political consensus.

A senator and a lawyer, a professor and a father, a Christian and a skeptic, and above all a student of history and human nature, Senator Obama has written a book of transforming power. Only by returning to the principles that gave birth to our Constitution, he says, can Americans repair a political process that is broken, and restore to working order a government that has fallen dangerously out of touch with millions of ordinary Americans. Those Americans are out there, he writes–“waiting for Republicans and Democrats to catch up with them.”

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