A review by taurilaane
A Promised Land by Barack Obama

5.0

Length 29h on audio - and I did not know the book is ending with 2011 not 2020 :) One might say that the book is too long, but surely he could have written it 3x as lengthy. I myself liked having a lot of background information about all topics - but I did not like that much background information about the people (although I do understand he wanting to give credit to all the great players helping him to change the world). Although 29h long, i never wanted to stop listening. Not a lot of notes, but an interesting story. And wow, what a Zen master he is - almost always controlling himself and doing the right thing. Even when sometimes the right thing is to be aggressive - comes with the territory! For self control, I’d compare him to Gandhi and other great ones.