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The book concludes with the events surrounding the killing of Osama bin Laden in May 2011, [12] [13] ending with a meeting between Obama and the Navy SEALs who conducted the raid. [8] While the book remains focused on politics, the first 200 pages of the book, approximately, are devoted to Obama's life and career up through his time in Chicago ...
Becoming is the memoir by former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama, published on November 13, 2018. [1] [2] Described by the author as a deeply personal experience, [3] the book talks about her roots and how she found her voice, as well as her time in the White House, her public health campaign, and her role as a mother. [4]
Barack Obama's America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-11450-4. Wise, Tim (2009). Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama. San Francisco: City Lights Books. ISBN 978-0-87286-500-6. Wolffe, Richard (2009).
Obama acknowledges using composite characterizations and adjusted chronology in the book's introduction, writing that the "hazards" of autobiography could not be fully avoided. Noting the book's considerable number of alterations from reality, invented composite characters, and restructured timelines, scholar David Garrow described Dreams as "a ...
Obama and Raul Castro reversed over 60 years of tension between the U.S. and Cuba by restoring diplomatic ties. 4. He urged states in 2013 to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Since then ...
The book features insights into the pitfalls of human rationality that might just transform how you think about intelligence. President Obama wants you to read this book on making smarter ...
The book's title is a literal reference to a comment made by John Lewis, one of the leaders of the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965, on the eve of Obama's presidential inauguration, referring to the police attack on demonstrators at the Edmund Pettus Bridge: "Barack Obama is what comes at the end of that bridge in Selma."
Becoming is Obama’s personal story, but, as Oprah noted when she made her Book Club announcement back in 2018, “I know it’s going to spark in you the desire to think about your own becoming.”