The Audacity of Hope

[Lemur]

My understanding was that his first book, Dreams of My Father, is far superior to Audacity. I guess it has to do with him not thinking he was going to be President someday, but supposedly Dreams is brutally honest and quite the excellent read.

But if we want to give the book club another try, I'm game. Count me in.

[Louis VI the Fat]

No thanks, I've read Marx and Engels already

Sure, I'm in. Either Obama book will do. I guess it's time I read up on Obama.


You know what saddens me? It's that neither of Obama's parents lived to see him president. Nor his grandmother, who was very important to him. Obama is still young, they should've been alive still.

Bush was born with a silver spoon, it is not extroardinary that he became president. Obama, like him or not, is a more unlikely story, a personal marvel. Yet none of his forebears are alive to witness it. His children are too young. They will grow up thinking it completely normal that their father is president. I would feel awfully alone if I were Obama.

Clinton, Sarkozy and Obama. All three are unlikely presidents. Self-made men, lawyers - law as an emancipatory study - all three raised mostly by their grandparents, all three with absent fathers whose very absense seems to have had a crucial impact on their ambition. I wouldn't mind a prosopography about these three men.
(Hmmm...starts writing )

[Rhyfelwyr]

The title is so cheesy I burst out laughing the first time I heard it.

[CountArach]

But if we want to give the book club another try, I'm game. Count me in.

Yup, now that I have time and money I'm in as well.

I'm planning on reading whichever of the two books my local booksellers have.