'A Promised Land,' to be released Nov. 17, weighs in at a whopping 768 pages. Obama said it's 'a fun and informative read.'
The first volume of Obama’s behemoth autobiography “A Promised Land” will be released Nov. 17, two weeks after Election Day, publisher Penguin Random House announced early Thursday. The book will be published simultaneously in 25 languages around the world, as well as in audiobook format read by Obama himself.The cover of the first volume of former President Barack Obama's memoir,"A Promised Land," which will be released on Nov. 17.
According to the publisher, “A Promised Land” will cover Obama’s life through the first term of his presidency, coming in at a whopping 768 pages and selling at $45 a copy. The second volume is forthcoming, with no announced publication date. “There’s no feeling like finishing a book, and I’m proud of this one,” Obama said in a statement. “I’ve tried to provide an honest accounting of my presidential campaign and my time in office: the key events and people who shaped it; my take on what I got right and the mistakes I made; and the political, economic, and cultural forces that my team and I had to confront then — and that as a nation we are grappling with still.
Obama went to say he believes the book will be “a fun and informative read” and will embolden “young people across the country — and around the globe — to take up the baton, lift up their voices, and play their part in remaking the world for the better.” The memoir is being published by Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House, which also published former first lady Michelle Obama’s blockbuster memoir “Becoming.”
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