Obama's search for a promised land continues
In the first of his two-part memoirs, the former US president cracks open the myth to show the man
SINCE Calvin Coolidge's autobiography of 1929, every American president has released memoirs after leaving office. Barack Obama's will come in two parts.
The first, A Promised Land, spans his formative years as a half-Kenyan, half-Kansan child struggling with his identity, to the raid that killed Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in May 2011.
True to form, Mr Obama is generous with detail - too generous, some say, with the tome clocking in at 768 pages. But I had no quibble with its length. A book doesn't run anywhere, and it's a nice change of pace from checking Twitter for presidential insights.
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