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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 Obama called “the audacity of hope.” The... (more)

Dreams from My Father

A Story of Race and Inheritance

by Barack Obama

Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. Dreams from My Father tells the story of Obama’s struggle to understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a black African... (more)

Renegade: The Making of President Barack Obama

Renegade: The Making of President Barack Obama

by Richard Wolffe

Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack Obama: a man wrestling with the momentous decision to run for the presidency, feeling torn about leaving behind a young family, and figuring out how to win the biggest prize in politics. This book is the previously untold and epic story of how a political newcomer with no money and an alien name grew... (more)

The Obama Nation

by Jerome R. Corsi

From the Publisher: In this thoroughly researched and documented book, the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry explains why the extreme leftism of an Obama presidency would leave the United States weakened, diminished and divided, why Obama must be defeated—and how he can be. THE OBAMA NATION Leftist Politics and the Cult of... (more)

The American Journey of Barack Obama

by The Editors of Life Magazine

For decades Americans have turned to LIFE to see, understand, and remember the most important events and people of our time. Just as LIFE once opened up the glittering Kennedy White House, LIFE now focuses its lens on Barack Obama. The American Journey of Barack Obama covers the candidate from his childhood and adolescence to his time as editor of The Harvard Law Review and his Chicago activist years,... (more)

The Inaugural Address, 2009: Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and The Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance

The Inaugural Address, 2009: Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and The Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance

by Barack Obama

Celebrate the inauguration of AmericaÂ’s 44th president with this New York Times bestseller Tying into the official theme for the 2009 inaugural ceremony, Â“A New Birth of FreedomÂ” from LincolnÂ’s Gettysburg Address , Penguin presents a keepsake edition commemorating the inauguration of President Barack Obama with words of the two great thinkers and writers who have helped shape him politically,... (more)

The Venus Hottentot: Poems

by Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander's highly praised first collection is available once again I didn't want to write a poem that said "blackness is," because we know better than anyone that we are not one or ten or ten thousand things Not one poem -from "Today's News" Originally published in 1990 to widespread acclaim, The Venus Hottentot introduces Elizabeth Alexander's vital poetic voice, distinguished even in... (more)

American Sublime

by Elizabeth Alexander

A brilliant new collection by Elizabeth Alexander, whose "poems bristle with the irresistible quality of a world seen fresh" (Rita Dove, The Washington Post ) Too many people have seen too much and lived to tell, or not tell, or tell with their silent, patterned bodies, their glass eyes, gone legs, flower-printed flesh . . . -from "Notes From" In her fourth remarkable collection, Elizabeth Alexander... (more)

Obama: From Promise to Power

by David Mendell

The biography of America's hottest political superstar—Barack Obama—from a journalist who has been covering Obama and his career since his successful run for U.S. Senate Barack Obama's meteoric rise from Hawaii high schooler to exemplary Harvard Law School student to well-groomed politico is the stuff of legend, a political story that has captured the attention of virtually every American. Since his... (more)

Michelle: A Biography

by Liza Mundy

She can be funny and sharp-tongued, warm and blunt, empathic and demanding. Who is the woman Barack Obama calls "the boss"? In Michelle, Washington Post writer Liza Mundy paints a revealing and intimate portrait, taking us inside the marriage of the most dynamic couple in politics today. She shows how well they complement each other: Michelle, the highly organized, sometimes intimidating, list-making pragmatist;... (more)

Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team

Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team

by Michelle Malkin

In her shocking new book, Malkin digs deep into the records of President Obama's staff, revealing corrupt dealings, questionable pasts, and abuses of power throughout his administration.

Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press

Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press

by Eric Boehlert

Ever since radio entered the American private home, technology has shaped political campaign strategy. Radio brought candidates more intimately and vividly into citizens' lives than newspapers could. The televised presidential debate of 1960 -- in which a strapping John F. Kennedy embarrassed a clammy Richard M. Nixon -- was technology's next coup. In the last decade, though, it is the internet that has radically... (more)

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American DreamBarack Obama

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

by Barack Obama

New new media

by Paul Levinson

YouTube, blogging, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, Second Life and other “new new media” are transforming just about every aspect of our culture from the way we elect Presidents to how we watch television. New New Media details the benefits, opportunities, and dangers of these transformations.

Democrat Justice: Is This the Change America Needs?

Democrat Justice: Is This the Change America Needs?

by Rick Martin

Rick Martin was a Republican candidate for the U.S. Congress, 14th Congressional District of Florida, November 1986. In December of 1984, after two and one half years of law school, Rick received his Juris Doctor of Law degree from NOVA Law School, at age 41.

Obamatyme

by Melodye Van Putten

In honor of the first anniversary of the election of President Barack Obama, Melodye Van Putten offers this collection of poetry that chronicles her feelings from the campaign through the early days of the Obama administration. Van Putten never believed she would live to witness the election of an African American man to the presidency of the United States. Her poetry chronicles the roller coaster feelings of... (more)

The Obama Revolution

by Alan Kennedy-Shaffer

The first book to be written by a campaign staffer and offering rare insider glimpses, The Obama Revolution explores how a generation of believers and the politics of hope won the presidency for Barack Obama and changed the world. The Obama Revolution carefully examines what Obama plans to do as president, how Obama clinched the Democratic nomination and won the general election, and why Obama’s evocative... (more)

Yes We Did! An inside look at how social media built the Obama brand (Voices That Matter)

by Rahaf Harfoush

FOREWORD by Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics and Grown Up Digital The Obama campaign’s mastery of social media for everything from fundraising to volunteer coordination has been widely reported. Until now, there hasn’t been an in-depth analysis of how they did it. In Yes We Did , new media strategist and campaign headquarters volunteer Rahaf Harfoush gives us a behind the-scenes look at the campaign’s use... (more)

Illuminati - 2012: The Book the World does not Want you to Read

Illuminati - 2012: The Book the World does not Want you to Read

by Nishan A. Kumaraperu

What if everything you have been taught to trust and believe is a lie? What if there is a secret government within our own that has been in place for centuries? What if that organization is using its money, power, and the fervent worship of their god to bring about the end of times? Illuminati - 2012 will take you into the very depths of human corruption and wickedness while it enlightens you to the... (more)

Now Hiring: White House Dog

by Gina Bazer

A clever twist on the First Family’s dog hunt, this is the story of two little girls, living in the White House, who post a sign on the lawn to kick off their search for the perfect dog. Soon the applicants are lining up, and as the parents prepare for a fancy state dinner, the girls conduct their secret dog interviews. Every time the doorbell rings, a different dog has come calling, each barking its own praise... (more)

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Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

by Barack Obama

A Story of Race and Inheritance

by Barack Obama

by Richard Wolffe

by Jerome R. Corsi

by The Editors of Life Magazine

by Barack Obama

by Elizabeth Alexander

by Elizabeth Alexander

by David Mendell

by Liza Mundy

by Michelle Malkin

by Eric Boehlert

by Barack Obama

by Paul Levinson

by Rick Martin

by Melodye Van Putten

by Alan Kennedy-Shaffer

by Rahaf Harfoush

by Nishan A. Kumaraperu

by Gina Bazer