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Get the Summary of Barack Obama's A Promised Land in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of...
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English
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In his introduction to the world at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, then state senator Barack Obama insisted, "There is not a liberal America and a conservative America-there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America-there's the United States of America." But, as his latest memoir, A Promised Land, makes clear, Obama inhabits a smug, elite liberal America in which...
Author
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English
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"In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency--a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil"--
4) 100 Years
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
100 YEARS documents the David vs. Goliath story of Elouise Cobell's courageous fight for justice for hundreds of thousands of Native Americans who were cheated out of billions of dollars by the United States Government. Over 100 years ago, the United States Government broke up numerous Indian reservations and allotted millions of acres to 300,000 individual Indians. They promised to manage their land and send lease payments for oil, gas, timber, and...
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Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
xvi, 904 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Un relato cautivador y personal de la historia según se va forjando, del presidente que nos ha inspirado a creer en el poder de la democracia. En este extraordinario primer volumen de sus esperadas memorias presidenciales, Barack Obama narra la historia de su sorprendente evolución de ser un joven en busca de su identidad a convertirse en líder del mundo occidental, describiendo con increíble detalle tanto su formación política como los momentos...
Publisher
Trinity University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xxiv, 478 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An anthology bringing together the testimony of over eighty theologians, religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, naturalists, activists, and writers to present a diverse and compelling call to honor humans' moral responsibility to the planet in the face of environmental degradation, species extinction, and global climate change"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 volumes (xvii, 586 pages) : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Also known as the Great Northward Migration and the Black Migration, this movement of more than six million African Americans from America's rural southern regions to its urban northern regions occurred over more than 50 years, from 1916 to 1970. Some historians separate this great move into two periods--the first from 1916 to 1940, during which 1.6 million people moved from the rural south to the industrial north, and the second following the Great...
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