A Promised Land
- Section
- Deane’s Library
- Type
- Book Review
- Pages
- 768
- Author
- Barack Obama
- Published
- 2020
- Date
- Tags
- politics, obama, biography, memoir
“You read memoirs for two things: (1) a play-by-play re-telling of history, and (2) some higher truth to it all; some ‘gestalt’ that makes you look at things differently. This book has #1, for sure. Not so much of #2. The book starts with Obama’s childhood (but doesn’t spend a lot of time on it),…”