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A Promised Land by Barack Obama

16 reviews

readandfindout's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

Style/writing: 4 stars
Themes: 4 stars
Knowledge/perspective: 4.5 stars 

This is actually really hard to rate! Because I thought everything was well done, and I really enjoyed Obama's perspective, but I struggled with the pacing and level of detail. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Violence, Islamophobia, Cancer, and Genocide

Minor: Death, Homophobia, and Torture

kyras's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization and Gun violence

Moderate: Islamophobia and Antisemitism

Minor: Homophobia

brookey8888's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

I really enjoyed this. I learned a lot because I was a child during his whole presidency. This book made me happy,sad(I cried multiple times), and angry. He does talk about his life but it’s mostly about his presidency. How he got there and what happened. So I understand most of this but I won’t lie when he talked about certain things I was confused. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Islamophobia, Racism, and Religious bigotry

pagesfromhome's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

Barack Obama was the first president I volunteered for as well as the first one I voted for. So naturally, I'm a little biased to liking him and it would come as no surprise that I loved the first part of his memoirs. 

Obama is known for being a little long-winded and that is certainly the case here. He often dives into the political process in ways that can feel a little too heavy in juxtaposition to the moments where he waxes poetic about the love he holds for his family. I'll admit that by far my favorite parts of the book were those moments where he was either speaking about his wife and daughters or the moments where he let his honesty really shine. At multiple points of the book, Obama is clearly saying things that he didn't feel appropriate sharing as President so I really enjoyed that blunt honesty. Unfortunately, having those moments of complete honesty then made those moments of not-so-honest stores felt more cagey. 

Ultimately, this book was a 4.25 star for me. Obama is an incredible writer and I am very much looking forward to the next part of this series. I'd highly recommend it to anyone interested in hearing about the goings-on of the modern political process, but as always, be aware that every political memoir is a piece of propaganda even though Obama is exceptionally self-aware of his own flaws throughout the book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Violence, Torture, Racism, and Racial slurs

Minor: Antisemitism, Death, Genocide, Islamophobia, Homophobia, and Police brutality

sionnac's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense slow-paced

4.5

I read Michelle Obama's book too and interesting to hear them talk about same period. He's a good writer and I will look forward to the next one. The crises and military operations were hard to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Cancer, Islamophobia, Racism, Terminal illness, and Violence

Minor: Child death and Mass/school shootings

alylentz's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

 More readable and engrossing than I expected from a political memoir that's so hefty. Started to feel a little formulaic after a while, but I definitely learned a lot and feel like I got a lot out of reading this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Cancer, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Islamophobia, and Police brutality

Minor: Death, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, and Violence