The Audacity of Hope

This is not a book review (yet) as I just got this book (thanks to hubby who picked it up at Costco for me). I can't remember another book that I have so eagerly awaited. I didn't read Barack Obama's first book "Dreams of My Father" (yet), but the release of "The Audacity of Hope, Thoughts on Reclaiming The American Dream" is just what I have been needing in this pre-election time. I read the first few pages and already I am struck:

"...there was another tradition to politics, a tradition that stretched from the days of the country's founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done."

Ubuntu!

There is a good post on Berkeley Bubble about Obama including links to his 2004 Key Note Address to the DNC.

Read more about the book's release:
Chicago Sun-Times
NY Times
Time Magazine: Book Excerpt

Comments

[Manoj]

I just saw his book at Barnes and Noble, but I think I will go to Costco or but it online as well. I'll be curious to hear your impressions when you're done reading the book.

[distar]

did you see him on Oprah yesterday? I hear he's on Face the Nation this wknd as well.

[Margaret]

The politics of attack, simplistic answers, no compromise or meeting of the minds--these things are ruining our country. We must work together to solve the problems we have, or we are goners.

[Mom]

I saw him on Oprah. I would vote for him in a heart beat. He needs to teach the world, too. I hope he doesn't give up. Can we clone him?

[Melanie]

this is an announcement that gives me a small faint flutter of hope. i had said before that he would be a great VP, but that was bc he was so new at being a senator. but there are some who are born to greatness . . .