The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream - Paperback

by Barack Obama (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Barack Obama's lucid vision of America's place in the world and call for a new kind of politics that builds upon our shared understandings as Americans, based on his years in the Senate "An upbeat view of the country's potential and a political biography that concentrates on the senator's core values." - Chicago Tribune “In our lowdown, dispiriting era, Obama’s talent for proposing humane, sensible solutions with uplifting, elegant prose does fill one with hope.” - Michael Kazin, The Washington Post "[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. Those polling categories that presume to define the vast chasm between us do not, Obama reminds us, add up to the sum of our concerns or hint at where ou