The truth, nothing but the truth, but not the whole truth
Former US president Barack Obama’s limpid memoir is a blast, until he reaches the White House
30 November 2020 - 19:51
Barack Obama’s US presidential memoir, A Promised Land, can be split into two narrative styles. The first chronicles his almost cinematic life story up to his January 2009 inauguration. The rest is devoted to the first two-and-a-half years of his presidency. Though they are in the same memoir they read, at times, like different books...
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