The Audacity of Hope

Barack Obama was born in Honolulu in 1961. In his early twenties he found his vocation working among poor communities on the south side of Chicago. Later he went to law school at Harvard University, where he became the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review. In 1995 he published his memoir Dreams From My Father, which became a bestseller soon after it was reissued in 24. After returning to Chicago, he was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996. Barack Obama delivered the keynote address at the 24 Democratic National Convention, and later that year he was elected to the US Senate. His second book, The Audacity of Hope, was published in 26 and became an immediate bestseller. In November 28 Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States of America, following which he published the bestselling Change We Can Believe In. He was re-elected in 212 and served a second term which concluded in 216. His next book, A Promised Land, is released in November 22. He is married to Michelle, with whom he has two daughters, Sasha and Malia.