Posts Tagged ‘a promised land’
Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ reveals the human side of the former president
The president is just a person. However, due to the weight of the decisions he makes daily, we forget that the people we elect to the Oval Office are simply human. Former POTUS Barack Obama grapples with this reality in his book, A Promised Land. In the preface to the memoir, President Obama writes that…
Read MoreBarack Obama’s new book ‘A Promised Land’ sets sales records
Former President Barack Obama’s latest memoir, A Promised Land, has broken first-day sales records for the largest publishing house in the world. According to a statement by Penguin Random House imprint Crown, A Promised Land sold more than 887,000 books on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, the first day in the U.S. and Canada, ABC News…
Read MoreObama was forced to quit coaching his daughter’s team due to complaints
Former President Barack Obama delivered some enthralling anecdotes about his time inside the White House in his upcoming memoir, A Promised Land. According to an excerpt obtained by The Sunday Times of the U.K., Obama was forced to quit coaching his youngest daughter Sasha’s fourth-grade basketball team due to chronic complaints from parents within the…
Read MoreBarack Obama reveals presidency took heavy toll on his marriage
Former President Barack Obama opens up for the first time about the sizable toll his presidency took on his marriage. The 44th president writes in A Promised Land, which goes on sale on Nov. 17, 2020, that he discerned underlying tensions while he and wife Michelle and their children were living in a sometimes suffocating…
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