WASHINGTON: Former President Barack Obama“A Promised Land” sold nearly 890,000 copies in the United States and Canada in its first 24 hours, making it the best-selling presidential memoir in modern history. Day one sales, a record for Penguin Random House, include pre-orders, e-books and audio. According to the editor’s information …
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Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States. (Archive) Highlight Obama says he never visited India before his 2010 presidential visit India “always held a special place in my imagination,” he says. He has made the breakthrough in “A Promised Land,” his new book. Washington: Former US President …
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The memoirs of Barak Obama will be published tomorrow. (Archive) New Delhi: The memoirs of former US President Barack Obama have “high praise for Manmohan Singh,” but Prime Minister Narendra Modi “is not mentioned by name at all,” says Congressional Leader Shashi Tharoor in a series of tweets. Tharoor wrote …
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Former US President Barack Obama says Congressional Leader Rahul Gandhi has a “nervous and reportable quality” as a student eager to impress the teacher, but lacks the aptitude and passion to “master The matter”. The New York Times reviewed Obama’s memoir ‘A Promised Land’, in which, among other topics, the …
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