Barack Obama Gives Update On When Vol. 2 Of His Memoir ‘A Promised Land’ Will Be Finished – History Talks
deadline.comIt’s been almost four years since President Barack Obama‘s memoir A Promised Land was published on Nov. 17, 2020 as Volume 1 of a planned two-volume series.
There has been little information since on when Volume 2 will be ready, with no release date set. During A+E Networks’ History Talks event Saturday, Obama indicated that the new tome is nearing completion. “I’m writing, hopefully eventually this will be done next year, the second volume of my Presidential memoir,” he said during an interview with Malcolm Gladwell.
He teased Vol. 2 with an anecdote, which is included in the book, about him taking his young daughters to the MLK Jr. memorial ahead of its August 22, 2011 opening.
As they looked up, “it was this wonderful metaphor, because it’s this placid stone, marble figure, and he’s looking out the distance, and he’s holding something,” Obama said. “And you’re just thinking this, some guy in his 30s who has the weight of the world and the nation and is trying to channel his faith and the sacrifices that he knows he’s putting his family through.
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