Offers a detailed examination of how the decisions President Obama is making, the programs he is championing, and the support and opposition he is getting from others will ultimately impact ordinary Americans.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Barack Obama’s lucid vision of America’s place in the world and call for a new kind of politics that builds upon our shared understandings as Americans, based on his years in the Senate
 
“In our lowdown, dispiriting era, Obama’s talent for proposing humane, sensible solutions with uplifting, elegant prose does fill one with hope.”—Michael...

Reveals the making of a president, both on the campaign trail and before he ran for high office.

Features a biography of the forty-fourth president of the United States including his early years, education at Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard Law School where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review, and his early career as a community organizer and civil rights attorney.