Author: Barack Obama
Translator: Su-won Hong
Publisher: Random House Korea
Hardcover | 544 pages
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About This Book
Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
"A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves
these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics
will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won’t be
pre-packaged, ready to pull off the shelf. It will have to be
constructed from the best of our traditions and will have to account for
the darker aspects of our past. We will need to understand just how we
got to this place, this land of warring factions and tribal hatreds. And
we’ll need to remind ourselves, despite all our differences, just how
much we share: common hopes, common dreams, a bond that will not break."
-- from The Audacity of Hope
In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National
Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political
spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds,
a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our
history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in
the future, or what Senator Obama called "the audacity of hope.”
Now, in The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama calls for a different brand
of politics–a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and
alienated by the "endless clash of armies” we see in congress and on the
campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and
nobility of spirit at the heart of "our improbable experiment in
democracy.” He explores those forces–from the fear of losing to the
perpetual need to raise money to the power of the media–that can stifle
even the best-intentioned politician. He also writes, with surprising
intimacy and self-deprecating humor, about settling in as a senator,
seeking to balance the demands of public service and family life, and
his own deepening religious commitment.
At the heart of this book is Senator Obama's vision of how we can move
beyond our divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the
growing economic insecurity of American families, the racial and
religious tensions within the body politic, and the transnational
threats–from terrorism to pandemic–that gather beyond our shores. And he
grapples with the role that faith plays in a democracy–where it is vital
and where it must never intrude. Underlying his stories about family,
friends, members of the Senate, even the president, is a vigorous search
for connection: the foundation for a radically hopeful political
consensus.
A senator and a lawyer, a professor and a father, a Christian and a
skeptic, and above all a student of history and human nature, Senator
Obama has written a book of transforming power. Only by returning to the
principles that gave birth to our Constitution, he says, can Americans
repair a political process that is broken, and restore to working order
a government that has fallen dangerously out of touch with millions of
ordinary Americans. Those Americans are out there, he writes–"waiting
for Republicans and Democrats to catch up with them.”
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