Let me stipulate from the beginning that A Promised Land is not a revelatory book like Dreams from my Father, a book Barack Obama wrote when he had no idea he would be President of the United States one day, when he was finishing figuring out who he was and why anyone who didn’t know …
Tag: Barack Obama
Aug 30 2021
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
- By Doug Merrill in Autobiography, Doug, History, Politics
-
August 30, 2021
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2021/08/30/a-promised-land-by-barack-obama/
Mar 09 2019
The Bridge by David Remnick
Because I am all about timely reading, I have just finished The Bridge, whose subtitle is The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, and which was published in 2010. As Remnick explains in the acknowledgments, his “hope was to write a piece of biographical journalism that, through interviews with his contemporaries and certain historical actors, …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2019/03/09/the-bridge-by-david-remnick/
Recent Posts
- Whatever Happened To Frankie King by Jay Neugeboren & Eli Neugeboren March 7, 2025
- I’m Lucky To Have My Parents by Radostina Nikolova & Yana Popova March 6, 2025
- A Song for You and I, by K. O’Neill March 5, 2025
- The Tides Of Time by Sarah M Eden (EXCERPT) March 4, 2025
- Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito March 3, 2025
- Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum March 2, 2025
- Tantalizing Tales — February 2025 — Part Two February 28, 2025
- When I Hear Spirituals by Cheryl Willis Hudson & London Ladd February 27, 2025
- A Short History Of Black Craft In Ten Objects by Robell Awake February 26, 2025
- Speculative Mysteries coming soon! February 25, 2025