A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of November 4, 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office.
Reflecting on the presidency, he offers a unique and thoughtful exploration of both the awesome reach and the limits of presidential power, as well as singular insights into the dynamics of U.S. partisan politics and international diplomacy. Obama brings readers inside the Oval Office and the White House Situation Room, and to Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, and points beyond. We are privy to his thoughts as he assembles his cabinet, wrestles with a global financial crisis, takes the measure of Vladimir Putin, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds to secure passage of the Affordable Care Act, clashes with generals about U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, tackles Wall Street reform, responds to the devastating Deepwater Horizon blowout, and authorizes Operation Neptune’s Spear, which leads to the death of Osama bin Laden.
A Promised Land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective—the story of one man’s bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage. Obama is candid about the balancing act of running for office as a Black American, bearing the expectations of a generation buoyed by messages of “hope and change,” and meeting the moral challenges of high-stakes decision-making. He is frank about the forces that opposed him at home and abroad, open about how living in the White House affected his wife and daughters, and unafraid to reveal self-doubt and disappointment. Yet he never wavers from his belief that inside the great, ongoing American experiment, progress is always possible.
This beautifully written and powerful book captures Barack Obama’s conviction that democracy is not a gift from on high but something founded on empathy and common understanding and built together, day by day.

In this tender, beautiful letter to his daughters, President Barack Obama has written a moving tribute to thirteen groundbreaking Americans and the ideals that have shaped our nation. From the artistry of Georgia O'Keeffe, to the courage of Jackie Robinson, to the patriotism of George Washington, President Obama sees the traits of these heroes within his own children, and within all of America's children.
Breathtaking, evocative illustrations by award-winning artist Loren Long at once capture the personalities and achievements of these great Americans and the innocence and promise of childhood.
This beautiful book celebrates the characteristics that unite all Americans, from our nation's founders to generations to come. It is about the potential within each of us to pursue our dreams and forge our own paths. It is a treasure to cherish with your family forever.

Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. Dreams from My Father tells the story of Obama’s struggle to understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a black African father and white American mother—a struggle that takes him from the American heartland to the ancestral home of his great-aunt in the tiny African village of Alego.

Obama opens his story in New York, where he hears that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has died in a car accident. The news triggers a chain of memories as Barack retraces his family’s unusual history: the migration of his mother’s family from small-town Kansas to the Hawaiian islands; the love that develops between his mother and a promising young Kenyan student, a love nurtured by youthful innocence and the integrationist spirit of the early sixties; his father’s departure from Hawaii when Barack was two, as the realities of race and power reassert themselves; and Barack’s own awakening to the fears and doubts that exist not just between the larger black and white worlds but within himself.
Propelled by a desire to understand both the forces that shaped him and his father’s legacy, Barack moves to Chicago to work as a community organizer. There, against the backdrop of tumultuous political and racial conflict, he works to turn back the mounting despair of the inner city. His story becomes one with those of the people he works with as he learns about the value of community, the necessity of healing old wounds, and the possibility of faith in the midst of adversity.
Barack’s journey comes full circle in Kenya, where he finally meets the African side of his family and confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life. Traveling through a country racked by brutal poverty and tribal conflict, but whose people are sustained by a spirit of endurance and hope, Barack discovers that he is inescapably bound to brothers and sisters living an ocean away—and that by embracing their common struggles he can finally reconcile his divided inheritance.
A searching meditation on the meaning of identity in America, Dreams from My Father might be the most revealing portrait we have of a major American leader—a man who is playing, and will play, an increasingly prominent role in healing a fractious and fragmented nation.
Pictured in lefthand photograph on cover: Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr. (President Obama's paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy). Pictured in righthand photograph on cover: Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham (President Obama's maternal grandfather and his mother as a young girl).

The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father's life and reconcile his divided inheritance. Written at the age of thirty-three, "Dreams from My Father" is an unforgettable read. It illuminates not only Obama's journey, but also our universal desire to understand our history, and what makes us the people we are.

Includes the senator's speech from the 2004 Democratic National Convention!
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.

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 Obama called “the audacity of hope.”
The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama’s call 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 Barack 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, and members of the Senate is a vigorous search for connection: the foundation for a radically hopeful political consensus.
A public servant and a lawyer, a professor and a father, a Christian and a skeptic, and above all a student of history and human nature, Barack 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.”

Relive the extraordinary Presidency of Barack Obama through White House photographer Pete Souza's behind-the-scenes images and stories--some published here for the first time--with a foreword from the President himself.
During Barack Obama's two terms, Pete Souza was with the President during more crucial moments than anyone else--and he photographed them all. Souza captured nearly two million photographs of President Obama, in moments highly classified and disarmingly candid.
Obama: An Intimate Portrait reproduces more than 300 of Souza's most iconic photographs with fine-art print quality in an oversize collectible format. Together they document the most consequential hours of the Presidency--including the historic image of President Obama and his advisors in the Situation Room during the bin Laden mission--alongside unguarded moments with the President's family, his encounters with children, interactions with world leaders and cultural figures, and more.
Souza's photographs, with the behind-the-scenes captions and stories that accompany them, communicate the pace and power of our nation's highest office. They also reveal the spirit of the extraordinary man who became our President. We see President Obama lead our nation through monumental challenges, comfort us in calamity and loss, share in hard-won victories, and set a singular example to "be kind and be useful," as he would instruct his daughters.
This book puts you in the White House with President Obama, and will be a treasured record of a landmark era in American history.

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making, from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of November 4, 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office.
Reflecting on the presidency, he offers a unique and thoughtful exploration of both the awesome reach and the limits of presidential power, as well as singular insights into the dynamics of U.S. partisan politics and international diplomacy. Obama brings readers inside the Oval Office and the White House Situation Room, and to Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, and points beyond. We are privy to his thoughts as he assembles his cabinet, wrestles with a global financial crisis, takes the measure of Vladimir Putin, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds to secure passage of the Affordable Care Act, clashes with generals about U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, tackles Wall Street reform, responds to the devastating Deepwater Horizon blowout, and authorizes Operation Neptune’s Spear, which leads to the death of Osama bin Laden.
A Promised Land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective—the story of one man’s bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage. Obama is candid about the balancing act of running for office as a Black American, bearing the expectations of a generation buoyed by messages of “hope and change,” and meeting the moral challenges of high-stakes decision-making. He is frank about the forces that opposed him at home and abroad, open about how living in the White House affected his wife and daughters, and unafraid to reveal self-doubt and disappointment. Yet he never wavers from his belief that inside the great, ongoing American experiment, progress is always possible.
This beautifully written and powerful book captures Barack Obama’s conviction that democracy is not a gift from on high but something founded on empathy and common understanding and built together, day by day.

美國前總統、諾貝爾和平獎得主歐巴馬
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美國藍領搖滾教父、工人皇帝布魯斯•史普林斯汀
從夢想‧神話‧音樂談起，重塑新時代美國夢！
美國，自由的沃土，吸引世界各地的人前來創造歷史，實現各自的美國夢。時光推移，深根這片土地上的人開始豎立高牆、排除異己，拒絕一切不同自己價值觀、種族、政治立場……極化現象到了水火不容的地步。
非關藍色、紅色，非關黑色、白色，而是同屬美國的連結感。如果文化已經分裂，要如何重新營造那種感覺？要如何恢復對美國前途的信心？要如何訴說這個國家嶄新、團結的故事，既忠於我們最高的理想，同時也誠實說明了我們的不足之處？
兩個局外人「一個黑人和一個白人」透過探討美國人避而不談、不願追溯的歷史，希望能夠引發共鳴與更多不同聲音加入，讓這個四分五裂的國家團結一致，回歸全球領導地位的道路。
一切【對話】就在擺著數十把吉他的錄音棚裡展開……
歐巴馬：在2020年夏天第一次坐下來錄《叛徒：生於美國》的時候，並不知道我們的對話會如何發展。我只知道布魯斯是說故事高手，是美國經驗的吟遊詩人──知道我們很多看法雷同，包括我們的國家對一些根本問題發生了令人不安的轉變。我們仍努力理解究竟我們怎麼走到今天這個地步，並思索可以怎麼訴說更有凝聚力的故事來消弭美國理想與現實之間的差距。生命與你交會，但你從未真正聽過他人的故事。我們敢說，只要你敞開心胸，細細聆聽，你會得到鼓舞……
布魯斯：我們從最初開始，成長過程、我們的相似處、不同點。夏威夷、紐澤西……頗不一樣；父親缺席……頗為類似。然後我們讓對話自然發展。我們漫談人生，談人生該怎麼過，談生命所處的世界，談我們做過哪些努力來塑造世界，我透過音樂，巴拉克透過政治，把世界塑造成我們覺得可以成為的樣子。我們也有嚴肅的對話，探討這個國家的命運、人民的前途，探討有哪些破壞、醜惡、墮落的力量想拆毀國家……
故事就這樣開始了。擅常將主流搖滾音樂與美國藍領階級生活的敘事結合，被封為音樂界「工人皇帝」的布魯斯•史普林斯汀，以及美國首位擁有非裔血統的美國總統巴拉克‧歐巴馬──一位透過音樂、一位透過政治──之間坦誠、發人深省和有趣的對話，從夢想、音樂、身分和社區，娓娓道來各自家族的起源與職業生涯決定性時刻，再深入探討美國兩極分化的政治狀態，以及造成美國夢和美國夢之間愈來愈大的鴻溝。
這是一本關於美國一切現實的故事，述說著美國建立以來人民內心一直尋找的「根」，探索社會階層、種族、史上最鼓舞人心的美國英雄等事蹟，試著打碎舊時代美國夢的神話，建立更多元與尊重的新美國夢。
【特別收錄】
從歐巴馬和史普林斯汀親口介紹美國原創歷史
獨家收錄 《叛徒》（Renegades ）播客內容以外的新對話
獨家收錄歐巴馬帶註釋的手寫演講稿。
史普林斯汀手寫歌詞與資料。
來自兩位作者的私藏生活照照片。
特別為本書的談話提供豐富歷史照片和文件。

We wspomnieniach z czasu prezydentury Barack Obama przedstawia dzieje nieprawdopodobnej przemiany młodego, poszukującego własnej tożsamości człowieka w przywódcę wolnego świata. Ukazuje zarówno swoje polityczne dojrzewanie, jak i przełomowe momenty pierwszej kadencji swojej, przypadającej na czasy dramatycznych zmian i zawirowań, prezydentury.

Zaprasza czytelników do Gabinetu Owalnego i Sali Sytuacyjnej Białego Domu oraz zabiera ich w podróż do Moskwy, Kairu, Pekinu i wielu innych miejsc. Poznajemy tok jego myślenia, gdy organizuje swój gabinet, zmaga się z globalnym kryzysem finansowym i mierzy z Władimirem Putinem, spiera się z generałami o amerykańską strategię w Afganistanie, podpisuje reformę Wall Street, reaguje na niszczycielską eksplozję platformy wiertniczej Deepwater Horizon i zezwala na przeprowadzenie operacji Trójząb Neptuna, w której ginie Osama bin Laden.

To niezwykle osobista i autorefleksyjna opowieść o człowieku, który założył się z historią – zaangażowanym animatorze społecznym poddanym próbie światowej polityki. Obama otwarcie pisze o siłach, które w kraju i za granicą stały mu na drodze, oraz o tym, jak życie w Białym Domu wpłynęło na jego żonę i córki. Nie obawia się mówić o wahaniach i rozczarowaniach, jednak nigdy nie wątpi w słuszność swojego przekonania, że w ramach wielkiego, amerykańskiego eksperymentu zawsze możliwy jest postęp. Były prezydent Stanów Zjednoczonych przypomina, że demokracja nie jest darem z niebios – trzeba ją dzień po dniu wspólnie budować na fundamencie empatii i porozumienia.

We wspomnieniach z czasu prezydentury Barack Obama przedstawia dzieje nieprawdopodobnej przemiany młodego, poszukującego własnej tożsamości człowieka w przywódcę wolnego świata. Ukazuje zarówno swoje polityczne dojrzewanie, jak i przełomowe momenty pierwszej kadencji swojej, przypadającej na czasy dramatycznych zmian i zawirowań, prezydentury.

Zaprasza czytelników do Gabinetu Owalnego i Sali Sytuacyjnej Białego Domu oraz zabiera ich w podróż do Moskwy, Kairu, Pekinu i wielu innych miejsc. Poznajemy tok jego myślenia, gdy organizuje swój gabinet, zmaga się z globalnym kryzysem finansowym i mierzy z Władimirem Putinem, spiera się z generałami o amerykańską strategię w Afganistanie, podpisuje reformę Wall Street, reaguje na niszczycielską eksplozję platformy wiertniczej Deepwater Horizon i zezwala na przeprowadzenie operacji Trójząb Neptuna, w której ginie Osama bin Laden.

To niezwykle osobista i autorefleksyjna opowieść o człowieku, który założył się z historią – zaangażowanym animatorze społecznym poddanym próbie światowej polityki. Obama otwarcie pisze o siłach, które w kraju i za granicą stały mu na drodze, oraz o tym, jak życie w Białym Domu wpłynęło na jego żonę i córki. Nie obawia się mówić o wahaniach i rozczarowaniach, jednak nigdy nie wątpi w słuszność swojego przekonania, że w ramach wielkiego, amerykańskiego eksperymentu zawsze możliwy jest postęp. Były prezydent Stanów Zjednoczonych przypomina, że demokracja nie jest darem z niebios – trzeba ją dzień po dniu wspólnie budować na fundamencie empatii i porozumienia.