Published: November 2020, Crown Publishing Group Genre: Non-fiction Themes: biography, American politics My rating (out of 5): ❤❤❤❤❤ I was given a copy of A Promised Land by Barack Obama for Christmas and finally finished it a few days ago. It's a big book, with 700 pages of tightly packed text, so I couldn't easily read it in bed and had to work through a few pages at a time when I was sitting downstairs. I asked to have this book as I am a big fan of both Barack and Michelle Obama, and I already have other books they have written on our bookshelf. I first became interested in Obama during his presidential campaign in 2007, when I read an extended article in the Sunday Times describing his aspirations, and how he was reaching out to ordinary people who had never voted before. I was immediately struck by his caring attitude towards forgotten sections of the population and the way he conveyed his ideas without ever talking down to people. When he was el...