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Barack Obama had previously published two books. The memoir Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance was published in 1995 by Times Books and the political book The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream was published worldwide in 2006 by Crown Publishing Group.
This bibliography of Barack Obama is a list of written and published works, both books and films, about Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. Scholarly books and articles [ edit ]
Obama: From Promise to Power is a 2007 political biography, written by David Mendell, of Barack Obama from his childhood to the announcement of his candidacy for president of the United States. The book focuses on Obama's fast rise from obscurity to the national stage, portraying it not as an unplanned phenomenon but rather as the result of a ...
Barack Obama is sharing his annual list of his favorite books of the year. On Dec. 20, the former president dropped his 2024 annual reading list on his Instagram account. The list contains 10 ...
2009-2015: Obama earned $400,000 a year as president and continued to earn book royalties, as well as interest on his investments. 2016-2017: Newsweek reported that Obama’s annual pension after ...
The title of The Audacity of Hope was derived from a sermon delivered by Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.Wright had attended a lecture by Frederick G. Sampson in Richmond, Virginia, in the late 1980s, on the G. F. Watts painting Hope, which inspired him to give a sermon in 1990 based on the subject of the painting – "with her clothes in rags, her body scarred and bruised and ...
Barack Obama recounts how his parents met and his own life until his enrollment at Harvard Law School in 1988. His parents were Barack Obama Sr. of Kenya, and Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas, who had met while they were students at the University of Hawaii. In the first chapter, speaking of his father and namesake, Obama states "[h]e had left ...
November 5, 1996: Barack Obama begins his political career. Barack was elected to the Illinois State Senate, kicking off the Obamas' political life. July 4, 1998: Malia Obama is born.