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(Original review: http://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2009/06/...)For everyone who bitched last election about not knowing “who Barack Obama is,” the answer was as close as his memoir, written in 1995 when he became the first black man elected president of the Harvard Law Review, before his rise into politics (the audiobook was recorded — with an additional preface, while he was Senator; I got a copy of the unabridged version, which also includes his 2004 DNC keynote speech).The book tells of his child...
The storytelling in the book was perfect. It was engaging. I liked Obama's way of looking at every person in life to comprehend his/her background and putting that character with more compassion and understanding. When he wrote this book, he was not the president but the depth of the characters he drew, experiences of racial encounters, Community work with the efforts he took to understand his roots were inspiring. The flow of the story reaches at the end in Kenya and it seemed like an impeccabl...
Can't believe i hadn't read this yet! I believe this is the updated version with a new intro and also his nominating speech for Kerry at the end. Both show his extraordinary writing talent.I tho't it was amazing and so interesting --what a life he had already had! I had less interest in details about his huge family back in Kenya --got pretty confusing w various wives, many children, but maybe that was the point.I really liked Obama's narration of most of it. Is there anything he doesn't do well...
Raises important questions on identity and race. Provocative yet soulful. There was peace in his writing.
I enjoyed reading about President Obama's history; his beginnings in life that formed who he is were greatly influenced by strong women. His passion for learning started later in his youth and his desire to help people, his community within his family and outside of his family, greatly influenced his educational choices in life as he discovered how education in all forms were important to his growth; from reading, to organizing groups and outreach and going on a safari in Africa. Not the type we...
This is the best book one could read if he does not believe that change can take place even with the effort of one individual. This book gives you a whole journey of a young black boy who did not know about his origins and on his ways to life how he managed himself, how he emerged as a powerful, intelligent lawyer of the USA leaving behind his old way of living in which all the youth of nowadays is trapped. This is the story of transition, this is the story of confidence, this is the story of fi...
Highly recommend as an audiobook and the version with the Audacity of Hope speech at the end.
I listened to the audio version. Well written interesting and comforting in this age of corruption.
Awe inspiring
