The Barack Obama Miscellany - Hundreds of Fascinating Facts About America's Great New President. Mark Hanks
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Contents
Title Page
1 Obama Trivia
2 Early Obama
3 Political Obama
4 The Election Campaign
5 Obama’s First Lady
6 Friends of Obama
7 Obama – Round the World
8 Obama’s Family
9 Sporty Obama
10 Obama and the Big Issues
11 Obama Humour
12 Obama Family Ties
13 All the President’s Men
14 Obama Speaks
Copyright
‘Don’t tell me we can’t change.
‘Yes, we can. Yes, we can change. Yes, we can.
‘Yes, we can heal this nation. Yes, we can seize our future. And as we leave this great state with a new wind at our backs and we take this journey across this great country, a country we love, with the message we carry from the plains of Iowa to the hills of New Hampshire, from the Nevada desert to the South Carolina coast, the same message we had when we were up and when we were down, that, out of many, we are one; that, while we breathe, we will hope.
‘And where we are met with cynicism and doubt and fear and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of the American people in three simple words – yes, we can.’
Barack Obama, January 2008
Favourite Books and Writers
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, James Baldwin, W.E.B. DuBois’s Souls of Black Folk, Martin Luther King’s Letter From Birmingham Jail, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory and The Quiet American, Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward, John Steinbeck’s In Dubious Battle, Robert Caro’s Power Broker, Studs Terkel’s Working, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and Theory of Moral Sentiments, and also Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men. Friedrich Nietzsche, Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich.