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According to an anonymous source reported by The Atlantic, Barack Obama has said Michelle had help from a ghostwriter. 3. Obama added: “I hope more than anything that the book inspires young people across the country – and around the globe – to take up the baton, lift up their voices, and play their part in remaking the world for the better.”, Associated Press contributed to this report, A detail from the the cover of A Promised Land, which is the first of two volumes. Published Thu, Sep 17 2020 7:46 AM EDT.

Fact-checking the first Trump-Biden presidential debate. Obama may also find his book coming out at a time when the 3 November election is still undecided and the country is far more preoccupied with who the next president will be than with events of the past. A spokesperson for Obama said the publication date was chosen to avoid the possibility that the book would pull attention from the presidential campaign of Joe Biden, Obama’s vice-president.

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Obama tweeted: ‘There’s no feeling like finishing a book, and I’m proud of this one.’, A Promised Land due to be published on 17 November, Obama aims to provide ‘honest accounting of my presidency’.

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The former first couple negotiated a package $65m deal for their memoirs – a figure the publisher appears likely to recoup. In “Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas,” Roberto Lovato finally tells the full story of his rebel life. The publisher described the first volume, which will be issued in 25 languages, as covering the story of “his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world”.

But it will face challenges far different from most presidential memoirs, and even from former first lady Michelle Obama’s blockbuster book, Becoming, which came out two years ago. September 17, 2020.

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Former US President Barack Obama has shared his favorite books of 2019.

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He has been called the most literary president since Abraham Lincoln and has already written two highly praised, million-selling books: "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope," both of which have been cited as aiding his presidential run in 2008 and making him the country's first Black president.

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8. The first volume of Obama’s post-White House memoirs concludes with the 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden, according to the publisher. The first of two volumes of Barack Obama’s post-presidential memoirs will be published worldwide on 17 November, two weeks after the US election, Penguin Random House has announced. The Los Angeles Public Library’s buildings remain COVID-closed. Get the latest news, events and more from the Los Angeles Times Book Club, and help us get L.A. reading and talking. by Samantha Irby (Vintage: $16), 2.

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Some even have a reading … The first volume of former President Barack Obama's memoir is coming out Nov. 17, two weeks after Election Day. The first volume of former President Barack Obama's memoir is coming out Nov. 17, two weeks after Election Day. Even with a substantial list price of $45, "The Promised Land" is virtually guaranteed to sell millions of copies. The Los Angeles Times bestsellers list comes courtesy of the California Independent Booksellers Alliance (CALIBA).