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gracew 's review for:
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama
hopeful
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
I think I'm gonna let myself think on this more before I go too deep into a review. I liked most of it, thought it is particularly hard to read in the wake of the events of Jan. 6th 2021. I was literally in the middle of this book when the storming of the capital happened so you can imagine the emotional whiplash. There was a lot of interesting things in here and I really liked the parts that let us see into his family and personal life. I also appreciated some of the things he admitted about US military involvement over the decades. I thought there were places where it dragged and IDK how he can write so calmly about so much horrible racist shit, tbh. But beyond that... I wanted to like this a lot more than I did and I think that I need to think about why.