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A Promised Land (Hard Cover)
Book Reviewed by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Published NY Times Nov. 12, 2020Updated Feb. 22, 2021
A PROMISED LAND
By Barack ObamaBarack Obama is as fine a writer as they come. It is not merely that this book avoids being ponderous, as might be expected, even forgiven, of a hefty memoir, but that it is nearly always pleasurable to read, sentence by sentence, the prose gorgeous in places, the detail granular and vivid. From Southeast Asia to a forgotten school in South Carolina, he evokes the sense of place with a light but sure hand. This is the first of two volumes, and it starts early in his life, charting his initial political campaigns, and ends with a meeting in Kentucky where he is introduced to the SEAL team involved in the Abbottabad raid that killed Osama bin Laden...
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