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First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 05:48 PM Nov 2020

Everybody: read Obama's memoir. This is a *great* book!

...I'm only about a third thru, but it is clearly the greatest Presidential memoir ever written. Only Grant can compete, and his book was about the Civil War, not his Presidency. Obama's memoir is smart, funny, candid, and just gives an overwhelming sense of what the Presidency is *like*. This is going to become an American classic...and this doesn't surprise me in the least.

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Everybody: read Obama's memoir. This is a *great* book! (Original Post) First Speaker Nov 2020 OP
Are you reading it doing audible? Dream Girl Nov 2020 #1
No, I bought it at the Yale Bookstore in New Haven two days ago... First Speaker Nov 2020 #4
I'm unable to read long texts so need to do audio. Dream Girl Nov 2020 #7
Buy it from an indie bookstore! Support a local business! LuckyLib Nov 2020 #2
I was planning on calling our local bookstore leftieNanner Nov 2020 #5
I ordered mine from an African American bookstore redstatebluegirl Nov 2020 #6
President Obama has written a great book. madaboutharry Nov 2020 #3
I've read his first two zipplewrath Nov 2020 #8

LuckyLib

(6,819 posts)
2. Buy it from an indie bookstore! Support a local business!
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 05:51 PM
Nov 2020

Many indie bookstores have online ordering, will mail it to you.

leftieNanner

(15,078 posts)
5. I was planning on calling our local bookstore
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 05:53 PM
Nov 2020

This afternoon to order it.

Gotta get the beef stew in the pot first.

I NEVER order anything from Amazon.

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
6. I ordered mine from an African American bookstore
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 05:54 PM
Nov 2020

in St. Louis that was featured on CBS Sunday morning.

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
8. I've read his first two
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 06:34 PM
Nov 2020

What is he going to say that Clinton didn't already tell us. Does he outline his short comings?

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