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| The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream | 
 enlarge | Author: Barack Obama
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  579 reviews
Sales Rank: 1403
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0307237702
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.04960730092
EAN: 9780307237705
ASIN: 0307237702
Publication Date: November 6, 2007
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 I couldn't bear to finish this book March 9, 2007
191 out of 272 found this review helpful
I was hoping to find reason to vote for Senator Obama, and made a game try to get through the book. What made it so hard to read? Misconstrued, incomplete ideas wrapped in "feelings"? I felt better when I put the book in the bottom of my trash barrel to save others from it. But I felt worse when I worried that it might appeal to them.
Disappointing... February 16, 2007
189 out of 266 found this review helpful
Spoken like a true politician. Barack Obama offers no real solutions to government problems in this book. Instead of thinking like a Washington outsider, Obama sounds like a well seasoned Washington politician. It's amazing that his book is so popular since its the same thing thats been offered before just in a new and updated package. What a waste...
It feels like the pot calling the kettle black (no pun intended) January 19, 2007
175 out of 223 found this review helpful
Well written, but it feels like there is nothing new presented about politics. If you are from the left side of the spectrum, you will find yourself nodding in agreement with Senator Obama's views, and if you hail from the right side, you will likely be shaking your head throughout most of the book.
There is a lot of apparent chastisement of political parties in general, but the author specifically cites examples from the republican party. Though I hail from the left, I got frustrated that he would present an argument that would seem like common sense, talk about how we need to centralize our political system, and then rip the republican side apart... doing just the opposite of what he says we need to stop doing!
By the end of the book, it felt more like a political stunt to discredit republicans and get ready for the White House than a book about changing the country. Ironically, I felt more sympathy towards republicans than I felt at the beginning of the book. A nice subtitle to the book would have been "The Audacity of Hope: Why the Republican Party Is Supremely Evil and Powerhungry".
A little less ripping on the republicans and following his own advice to politicians would have netted 4 or 5 stars.
Breathe into this paper bag, people October 27, 2006
171 out of 324 found this review helpful
Senator Obama is handsome, he's smart, he's charasmatic, he's this, and yes, he's that. You know what? I'm handsome, smart, and charasmatic, but no one is touting me for president.
This guy is a dyed in the wool liberal, but at least he's honest about it. Compared to Illinois's other senator who is an opportunistic chameleon whose tack to the left corresponds in lock step with his ascendency in his party, at least with Obama you know what you're getting.
I'm grown quite tired of all the hype around this guy. Sure, he's smart and he might be the only immovable object in the path of the irresistable force of that other junior senator, the one from New York. But point to ONE thing he's done (besides pen no less than two memoirs within a couple of years of each other--imagine being in your forties and having compiled two memoirs!). Name one piece of legislation with his name on it. He's non partisan you say? Show me one vote in the senate where he's broken ranks with the democratic caucas. I'll hang up and listen to your answer.
Aha, just what I thought.
not interested October 29, 2006
157 out of 286 found this review helpful
I am African-American and have been reading these same storiesmy whole life. Just give me a something different please!!!
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