3,855 words
Barack Obama
A Promised Land
New York: Crown Publishing, 2020
“Nature is true and not a lie. No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a Bill drawn on Nature’s Reality, and be presented there for payment—with the answer, No effects. Pity only that it often had so long a circulation: that the original forger were so seldom he who bore the final smart of it!”
— Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution
Part 1 available here.
In March of 2025, I wrote a review of the first of two volumes of Barack Obama’s Presidential memoirs, A Promised Land. More precisely, I noted that my review was limited to roughly the first half of the 768-page tome that covered Obama’s first term in office. (more…)
