Books by Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II was the first African American to be elected to the presidency of the United States, a position he held for two terms, from 2009 to 2017. Previously, he served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004. In 2009, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

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A Promised Land

Barack Obama

“A Promised Land” is the first of two planned volumes of memoirs by Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. Spanning 768 pages, the book provides an honest account of Obama’s rise to political stardom, from his early years through his successful campaigns and inauguration and all the way to May 2011 and the events surrounding the killing of Osama bin Laden.

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