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“A Promised Land” is the title of Barack Obama’s new book, which was published this week.
The book sold nearly 890,000 copies in the United States and Canada in its first 24 hours, more than any other presidential memoir.
In the book, the former president talks about what it was like to leave the White House and when he was in Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Obama on the visit to Oslo: – An illusion
– On one level, it was an illusion that the crowd was cheering on. And yet, in the flickering of the candles, I also saw something else. I saw an expression of the power of millions of people around the world, Obama writes on the visit to Norway.
In the book, Obama also writes about what he really thinks about various of the world’s current and former leaders.
– Head of the department of
Russian President Vladimir Putin is among those who will be featured in the book.
The former president describes Putin as a “department head, except that he has nuclear weapons and a veto from the UN Security Council” in the book, according to the BBC.
The channel has read the book and analyzes what Obama is saying about various world leaders.
So much chaos it can create
– Putin reminded me of the men who once ruled the Chicago machine or Tammany Hall (a political organization in the New York editor’s note). Tough, cunning and unsentimental characters who knew what they knew. Obama, who never went beyond his narrow experiences and who saw protection, bribery, shutdowns, fraud and occasional violence as legitimate tools for trade, writes about the leader of Russia.
– He liked
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, for his part, is praised by Obama in the book.
Obama writes that Cameron, who was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016, was “urban and confident”, according to the channel.
– I personally liked him. Even when we disagree, the former president writes, but does not hide the fact that he also disagreed with Cameron on various policy issues.
Merkel claims she was skeptical
The next world leader to be mentioned in Obama’s book is Angela Merkel. In Obama’s new book, the German chancellor is referred to as “firm and honest.”
According to the channel, Obama claims in the book that Merkel must have been skeptical of him for his “rhetoric and ability to speak,” but the former US president writes that he was not offended for that reason.
– Emotional outbursts
Throw yourself on this
The former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, for his part, does not receive as many praise from the former president.
Obama claims Sarkozy had “emotional outbursts and exaggerated rhetoric” in the book. According to the channel, he writes that the conversations with the former French president were fun, but he assures that they fluctuated a lot.
“They never deviated from their primary, thinly disguised interest, which should be at the center of the action, and take credit for whatever,” Obama wrote.
With hard settlement
Feared
In his new book, Obama also mentions Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as well as Manmohan Singh, the former Prime Minister of India and former Czech Prime Minister Václav Klaus.
In Obama’s eyes, Erdogan was “cordial and generally receptive to his requests,” but Obama claims the president often complained in his conversations.
“I had the strong impression that his commitment to democracy and the rule of law could only last as long as he preserved his own power,” Obama wrote.
Singh, for his part, is described as “wise and thoughtful”, while Klaus was more concerned in Obama’s eyes. Obama says he feared the latter would indicate a rise in right-wing populism in Europe.
Obama’s book breaks records
Fourth book
Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States. He was elected in November 2008 and sat for two terms before Donald Trump walked away with victory in 2016. Obama lives in Washington DC with his wife Michelle. Together they have daughters Malia and Sasha.
“A Promised Land” is his fourth book. The former president has previously published “Living a Dream – My African Heritage”, “Courage to Hope” and “Of Thee I Sing”.
