Barack Obama in new memoirs

In his forthcoming memoirs, former US President Barack Obama said that he thought Rahul Gandhi had “a nervous and reportable quality about him” as if he were a student who had done coursework and was “eager to impress. to the teacher”. But deep down, Gandhi “lacked the aptitude or passion to master the subject,” Obama wrote.

Excerpts from his work titled, A promised land, were mentioned in Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s book review in The New York Times. This is the first of two volumes, and it begins early in Obama’s life, mapping out his initial political campaigns, and ends with a meeting in Kentucky where he is introduced to the SEAL team involved in the Abbottabad raid that killed Osama bin Laden, writes Adichie. .

The book, with its “more political than personal” approach, is replete with biographical sketches of leaders from America and beyond. Also among them is former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, whom Obama thought had “a kind of impassive integrity,” as did US Secretary of Defense Bob Gates. The Singh-led United Progressive Alliance government was in power for part of Obama’s decade-long term from 2009 to 2017.

Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin reminded Obama of the “tough and cunning neighborhood bosses who used to run the Chicago machine,” Adichie writes. Also on Putin: “Physically, he had nothing special.”

On the newly elected president of the United States, Joe Biden, Obama said he thought of him as a “decent, honest and loyal man” who “could become irritable if he thought that he has not been granted his due, a quality that could burst”. when it comes to a much younger boss ”.