The Essential Barack Obama: The Grammy Award-Winning

The Essential Barack Obama: The Grammy Award-Winning Recordings
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A CD collection featuring the best-selling audiobooks, The Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father from GrammyÂ® 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 listenersâ€™ 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 â€œthe audacity of hope.â€

Now, in The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politicsâ€“a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the â€œendless clash of armiesâ€ we see in congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of â€œour improbable experiment in democracy.â€ He explores those forcesâ€“from the fear of losing to the perpetual need to raise money to the power of the mediaâ€“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 Obamaâ€™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 threatsâ€“from terrorism to pandemicâ€“that gather beyond our shores. And he grapples with the role that faith plays in a democracyâ€“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 writesâ€“â€œwaiting for Republicans and Democrats to catch up with them.â€

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 fatherâ€”a figure he knows more as a myth than as a manâ€”has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odysseyâ€”first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his motherâ€™s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his fatherâ€™s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
Country USA
Brand Brand: Random House Audio
Manufacturer Random House Audio
Binding Audio CD
ReleaseDate 2008-03-10
UnitCount 11
Format Abridged
EANs 9780739375945

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: Random House Audio
Manufacturer	Random House Audio
Binding	Audio CD
ReleaseDate	2008-03-10
UnitCount	11
Format	Abridged
EANs	9780739375945

The Essential Barack Obama: The Grammy Award-Winning Recordings

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