Barack Obama has announced that his highly anticipated memoir, A Promised Land, will be released later this fall and will go in-depth about the different issues and problems the former president encountered during his time at the White House.
According to the book’s website, the anticipated memoir scheduled for release Nov. 17 “will cover his “improbable odyssey from a young man searching for his identity to the leader of the free world” and “landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency.”
Obama tweeted the news earlier this week celebrating the milestone. “There’s no feeling like finishing a book, and I’m proud of this one,” he wrote. “In A Promised Land
, I try to provide an honest accounting of my presidency, the forces we grapple with as a nation, and how we can heal our divisions and make democracy work for everybody.”The new memoir will go into his presidency including selecting members of his cabinet to his thoughts on America’s strained relationship with Vladimir Putin.
“Obama is candid about the balancing act of running for office as a Black American, bearing the expectations of a generation buoyed by messages of ‘hope and change,’ and meeting the moral challenges of high-stakes decision-making,” the description reads according to USA Today.
“He is frank
about the forces that opposed him at home and abroad, open about how living in the White House affected his wife and daughters, and unafraid to reveal self-doubt and disappointment. Yet he never wavers from his belief that inside the great, ongoing American experiment, progress is always possible.”