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Obama on reading, writing and radical empathy

By Michiko Kakutani
New York Times·
16 mins to read

He invited authors and historians to the White House and had already published a best-selling memoir. That didn't make writing his latest book, A Promised Land, any less of a grind.

Barack Obama's new memoir A Promised Land is unlike any other presidential autobiography from the past — or, likely, future. Yes, it provides a historical account of his time in office and explicates the policy objectives of his administration, from health care to economic recovery to climate change. But

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