A seat in the Illinois legislature had opened up, and several friends suggested that I run, thinking that my work as a civil rights lawyer, and contacts from my days as a community organizer, would make me a viable candidate.
I was thirty-five at the time, four years out of law school, recently married, and generally impatient with life. Prologue It’s been almost ten years since I first ran for political office. This is an idea book, not a public-policy primer.” -Elizabeth Taylor, Philadelphia Daily News “Not only is Obama a good writer, his mind is top-shelf, his heart tender.” -Les Payne, Newsday “A thoughtful, careful analysis of what needs to be done to preserve our freedoms in a time of terror.” -Newton N. In nine focused chapters, Obama shows himself an agile thinker.
… The Audacity of Hope … is fascinating in its revelation of Obama as someone who considers and questions, rather than asserts and declares. How nice, then, to have a politician who can write as well as U.S. Obama also demonstrates a wry sense of humor…His particular upbringing gives him special insights into the transition of American politics in the 1960s and ’70s from debates over economic principles to a focus on culture and morality, and into the divisiveness, polarization and incivility that accompanied this transition.” -Gary Hart, The New York Times Book Review “America’s founders set a high standard for political writing, and most contemporary efforts fall woefully short. It presents a man of relative youth yet maturity, a wise observer of the human condition, a figure who possesses perseverance and writing skills that have flashes of grandeur. He writes tenderly about family and knowingly about faith.” - Los Angeles Times “An upbeat view of the country's potential and a political biography that concentrates on the senator's core values.” - Chicago Tribune "He is one of the best writers to enter modern politics." -Jonathan Alter, "What's impressive about Obama is an intelligence that his new books diplays in aubundance." - Washington Post Book World “The self-portrait is appealing. “Barack Obama is that rare politician who can actually write-and write movingly and genuinely about himself.” - The New York Times “Obama writes convincingly about race as well as the lofty place the Constitution holds in American life.
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