Barack Obama

Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States, serving two terms from 2009 to 2017, and an author whose memoirs have become defining works of contemporary political literature. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1961, he studied Political Science at Columbia University and earned his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama's first memoir, Dreams from My Father, published in 1995, traces his journey from Hawaii to Kenya to Chicago and became a bestseller after his emergence on the national political stage. A Promised Land, the first volume of his presidential memoirs, covers his early political career through the first two and a half years of his presidency, including the passage of the Affordable Care Act and the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. The book sold over 3.3 million copies in its first month of North American release. His audiobooks — narrated in his own voice — and books offer listeners and readers an intimate, reflective account of American democracy from someone who led it at the highest level.