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The Essential Barack Obama: The Grammy Award-Winning Recordings
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Additional The Essential Barack Obama: The Grammy Award-Winning Recordings Information
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A CD collection featuring the best-selling audiobooks, The Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father from Grammy® award-winning author, Barack Obama.
The Audacity of Hope
In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Senator Obama called “the audacity of hope.”
Now, in The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics–a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the “endless clash of armies” we see in congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of “our improbable experiment in democracy.” He explores those forces–from the fear of losing to the perpetual need to raise money to the power of the media–that can stifle even the best-intentioned politician. He also writes, with surprising intimacy and self-deprecating humor, about settling in as a senator, seeking to balance the demands of public service and family life, and his own deepening religious commitment.
At the heart of this book is Senator Obama’s vision of how we can move beyond our divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families, the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and the transnational threats–from terrorism to pandemic–that gather beyond our shores. And he grapples with the role that faith plays in a democracy–where it is vital and where it must never intrude. Underlying his stories about family, friends, members of the Senate, even the president, is a vigorous search for connection: the foundation for a radically hopeful political consensus.
A senator and a lawyer, a professor and a father, a Christian and a skeptic, and above all a student of history and human nature, Senator Obama has written a book of transforming power. Only by returning to the principles that gave birth to our Constitution, he says, can Americans repair a political process that is broken, and restore to working order a government that has fallen dangerously out of touch with millions of ordinary Americans. Those Americans are out there, he writes–“waiting for Republicans and Democrats to catch up with them.”
Dreams from My Father
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
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Very entertaining to listen to. President Obama narrates each book. He takes on the voices of his dad, grand mother, and other characters in the book. Pretty cool.
Hearing the President read his story, in his own voice is just priceless. It's well written, enlightening, and every American should read it or listen to the recording. I've given this CD as gifts to family and friends. We all Love it.
This audio book,Was a gift to my father in-law and it was a big hit. It's a great book to either read or listen to. the author (Barack) reads the books for you himself and it is a pleasure and a good story full of thruth you can picture what he talks about. Swanseas.
being able to listen to Barack himself describe his childhood and growing up was awesome. audacity of hope was a little too detailed for me. i often sat in my driveway un able to turn off the CD when i got home. his eloquent way of speaking and ability to add accents when speaking for his African relatives,made you feel like you knew his whole family. it was well written but i just found myself not getting as sucked into the politics discussions. its seemed to repeat some.
Emphasis are made where they impact most and the story had depth. Next I would like to say that Dreams From My Father was more personal than The Audacity of Hope. First I would like to say that I am partial to President Obama because he stole the hearts of generations in this country along the 2-year campaign trail; that is an amazing feat. I felt that The Audacity of Hope was more political but in a good kind of way. I felt like he was more engaging from a personal aspect because it appears true from the heart. When a book is read (narrated) by the author it brings the best opportunity for the reader to gain a true understanding of the soul of the writer. But you do walk away hoping and not waivering. Enjoy your opportunity to open your mind to CHANGE.
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