Barack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, quoted William Faulkner’s famous remark “The past isn’t dead and buried. In fact, it isn’t even past.” In Not Even Past, award-winning historian Thomas Sugrue examines the paradox of race in Obama’s America and how President Obama intends to [...]

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In third grade, Barack Obama wrote an essay titled, “I Want to Become President”—and he is, to this day, determined to show the world that, yes, he can. Barack Obama is a man who uses his words to inspire us. We can have a better future. We can be whatever we want to be. Yes. [...]

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The Speech: Race and Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” is a non-fiction book edited by T. Denean Sharply-Whiting, author of several books on race and director of Vanderbilt University’s African American and Diaspora Studies, concerning the “A More Perfect Union” speech of then-Senator Barack Obama. The speech was delivered on March 18, 2008 in [...]

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The American people’s admiration for and perhaps pride in their 44th president is nothing new, and has resulted in a plethora of articles and books, not to mention the introduction of such terms as “Obamanomics”. Adding to this collection is this practical pocket book, handy for easy reading while traveling. Despite its size, it contains [...]

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That’s according to “The Promise,” a book on Obama’s first year in office by Newsweek writer Jonathan Alter. It goes on sale May 19. The book says Obama laid into Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen in an Oval Office meeting last October. Obama was irked by the leak of a [...]

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“Barack Obama: In His Own Words” is a 166 page book of quotations. Edited by Lisa Rogak the glossy soft cover little book tells us “The Candidate Speaks On Everything From Abortion To The Middle East”. It is probably my nitpicking nature to suggest a better blurb might have been something along the lines of [...]

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