The Audacity of Hope

'A book that…will give believers in the potential of America much heart, much hope.' * Age * ‘He is one of the best writers to enter modern politics.’ * Newsweek * ‘Obama writes convincingly about race as well as the lofty place the Constitution holds in American life…He writes tenderly about family and knowingly about faith. Readers, no matter what their party affiliation, may experience the oddly uplifting sensation of comparing the everyday contemptuous view of politics that circulates so widely in our civic conversations with the practical idealism set down by this slender, smiling, 45-year-old former state legislator who is included on virtually every credible list of future presidential contenders.’ * Los Angeles Times * ‘The first term Democratic senator from Illinois has created a voice that reaches out from the page and draws you in, just as he does in person.’ * Australian Literary Review * ‘Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois and the Democratic Party’s new rock star, is that rare politician who can actually write—and write movingly and genuinely about himself.’ * New York Times *