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Barack Obama, the best-selling author, 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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