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A review by richardbakare
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
5.0
“Values are faithfully applied to the facts before is, while ideology overrides whatever facts call theory into question.” This line is perhaps my favorite sentence in the book. It perfectly incapsulates the delicate balance that is politics. Intricately trying to navigate a mine field of passions from multiple sides to safely land on the other side.
This was a journey historically traveled collaboratively between members of all parties. Today, there seems to be only one of two ways, left or right. Either direction leaving some on the other side left behind if not gravely injured. In this book, President Obama attempts to revisit a third way. That forgotten middle ground between left and right. Built upon the deliberative and reflective debate we should be having with our beliefs and ideologies. In the end whatever truth we come to, grounded in the facts before us.
His ability to see compromise and maintain a balanced view is the benefit of a very complex personal journey. One in which he has both seen and experienced personal struggle, as well as with absorbing the full benefit of travel to countries beyond his own and immersion in foreign cultures. This worldliness provides the reflective backdrop that highlights how our own freedoms and luxuries are not so prevalent elsewhere. Reminding us to be grateful, preserve those luxuries, and spread them through example and effort.
This was a journey historically traveled collaboratively between members of all parties. Today, there seems to be only one of two ways, left or right. Either direction leaving some on the other side left behind if not gravely injured. In this book, President Obama attempts to revisit a third way. That forgotten middle ground between left and right. Built upon the deliberative and reflective debate we should be having with our beliefs and ideologies. In the end whatever truth we come to, grounded in the facts before us.
His ability to see compromise and maintain a balanced view is the benefit of a very complex personal journey. One in which he has both seen and experienced personal struggle, as well as with absorbing the full benefit of travel to countries beyond his own and immersion in foreign cultures. This worldliness provides the reflective backdrop that highlights how our own freedoms and luxuries are not so prevalent elsewhere. Reminding us to be grateful, preserve those luxuries, and spread them through example and effort.