The Audacity of Hope

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The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics-a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope going forward.

"[Barack Obama] is that rare politician who can actually write-and write movingly and genuinely about himself. [He) strives in these pages to ground his policy thinking in simple common sense... while articulating these ideas in level-headed, nonpartisan prose."

-MICHIKO KAKUTANI, New York Times

"[Few] on the partisan landscape can discuss the word 'hope' in a political context and be regarded as the least bit sincere. Obama is such a man, and he proves it by employing a fresh and buoyant vocabulary to scrub away some of the toxins from contemporary political debate."

-JOHN BALZAR, Los Angeles Times

"In our lowdown, dispiriting era, Obama's talent for proposing humane, sensible solutions with uplifting, elegant prose does fill one with hope."

-MICHAEL KAZIN, Washington Post

"An upbeat view of the country's potential and a political biography that concentrates on the senator's core values." -MIKE DORNING, Chicago Tribune

BARACK OBAMA is a U.S. senator from Illinois. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Michelle, and their two daughters.

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Author: Barack Obama