From Publishers Weekly: First volume of Barack Obama’s memoir “Promised Land” coming Nov. 17… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now!
The first volume of Barack Obama’s long-anticipated presidential memoir, A Promised Land, will be published globally in hardcover and digital formats on November 17, 2020 by Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House. PRH has ordered a three million copy first printing of the U.S. edition, which will be released worldwide simultaneously in 25 languages; in addition PRH will release an unabridged audiobook edition that will be read by President Obama.
Acquired in 2017 along with Michelle Obama’s bestselling 2018 memoir Becoming in a record-breaking package deal for $65 million, Barack Obama’s A Promised Land, will be 768 pages and will include two 16-page photographic inserts. The hardcover edition will sell for $45 in the U.S., and $17.99 in the e-book edition. A book tour for the first volume as well as the date of publication of the second volume will be announced at a later date.
The book is written by President Obama, author of two previous bestselling works of memoir, Dreams of My Father, and The Audacity of Hope, and will tell the story of his rise from a young community organizer to become the 44th president of the United States and the first African American elected to the office. According to the publisher’s release, the book will provide a “deeply personal account” of the political balance and social demands of being the first Black American to occupy the Oval office as well as the demands of the presidency on his family. The book will also detail the dynamics that drove Obama’s national political and foreign policy decisions—from the Affordable Health Care Act to Russia and Vladimir Putin, the war in Afghanistan, and the death of Osama Bin Laden—that shaped the Obama administration and its historical legacy.
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