20:10Barack Obama is struggling to complete his White House memoirs, according to the New York Times. Michelle Obama’s book, Becoming, followed in 2018 and became a world bestseller. “She had a ghostwriter,” Obama reportedly “told a friend who asked about his wife’s speedy work”. The Art of the Deal, Crippled America or any other book “by” Donald Trump, this is not. As the Associated Press put it at the time of the book deal, “Barack Obama is widely regarded as one of the finest prose stylists among modern presidents, and his million-selling Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope are considered essential to his rise to the White House.”

Source: The Guardian June 29, 2020 11:42 UTC