Barack Obama was elected President of the United States on 4 November 2008. He was re-elected for a second term in 2012. He is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream and Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama’s Plan to Renew America’s Promise.
Books by Barack Obama
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
The paperback edition first published by Canongate Books in 2009
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Foreword copyright © 2008 by Barack Obama
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First published in the United States in 2008 by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York
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First published in Great Britain in 2008 by Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
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This digital edition first published in 2008 by Canongate Books
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following: Introduction, page 13: Tim Llewellyn; Reviving Our Economy, page 31: Polaris Images/Scout Tufankjian; Rebuilding America’s Leadership, page 107: AP/Wide World Photos/Mikhail Metzel; Conclusion, page 193: Michael Schneider; The Call, pages 200–201: David Katz British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library ISBN 978 1 84767 489 0 eISBN 978 1 84767 454 8 Design by Barbara Sturman Obama for America’s net proceeds will be donated to charity.
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