Barack Obama is well on his way to becoming the bestselling author of the year.

 

美国前总统贝拉克·奥巴马即将成为年度畅销书作家。
 

 

It is a title previously¹ bestowed² on his wife, Michelle Obama, whose book "Becoming" rocketed to the top of the charts in 2018.

 

Now the former president's new memoir³, "A Promised Land," is breaking records for the book's publisher, Crown, an imprint⁴ of Penguin⁵ Random⁶ House.

 

"A Promised Land" offers Obama's take on some of his most notable moments in office, from wrestling a global financial crisis to passing the Affordable⁷ Care Act.

 

The first of two volumes, this initial 768-page release is what Obama described in a September statement as "an honest accounting⁸ of my presidential campaign and my time in office, the key events and people who shaped it, my take on what I got right and the mistakes I made, and the political, economic, and cultural forces that my team and I had to confront then -- and that as a nation we are grappling with still."

 

The publisher has yet to announce the release date of the second volume.

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