The Los Angeles Times Community Book Club is reading “The Promised Land,” the bestselling memoir by former President Barack Obama. President Barack Obama sits in the Oval Office on his first day in office, Jan. 21, 2009. From “A Promised Land.” (Pete Souza / The White House)This, I decided, was an ideal worth pursuing. Reprinted with permission from “A Promised Land” Copyright © 2020 by Barack Obama, published by Crown, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. “A Promised Land” is the first of two volumes about Barack Obama’s life.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 16, 2021 01:18 UTC