The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

386 Pages·2006·1.24 MB·English

by  Barack Obama

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Also by Barack Obama
Dreams from My Father
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Thoughts on Reclaiming
the American Dream
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Crown Publishers
New York
Copyright © 2006 by Barack Obama
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the
Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Obama, Barack.
The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream /
Barack Obama.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Obama, Barack. 2. Legislators—United States—Biography.
3. African American legislators—Biography. 4. United States.
Congress. Senate—Biography. 5. Obama, Barack—Philosophy.
6. National characteristics, American. 7. Ideals (Philosophy).
8. United States—Politics and government—Philosophy.
9. United States—Politics and government—2001– . I. Title.
E901.1.O23A3 2006
973'.04960730092—dc22 2006028967
eISBN-13: 978-0-307-38209-2
eISBN-10: 0-307-38209-5
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To the women who raised me—
my maternal grandmother, tutu,
who’s been a rock of stability throughout my life,
and
my mother,
whose loving spirit sustains me still

Contents
1
Prologue
chapter one: 13
Republicans and Democrats
chapter two: 43
Values
chapter three: 71
Our Constitution
chapter four: 101
Politics
chapter five: 137
Opportunity
chapter six: 195
Faith
chapter seven: 227
Race
chapter eight: 271
The World Beyond Our Borders
chapter nine: 325
Family
353
Epilogue
363
Acknowledgments
365
Index