A Promised Land

A Promised Land

Author	Barack Obama
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	The Presidential Memoirs, Volume 1
Subject	Autobiography Political memoir
Publisher	Crown
Publication date	November 17, 2020
Media type	Print
Pages	768
ISBN	978-1-5247-6316-9 hardcover
OCLC	1196086067
Dewey Decimal	973.932092
LC Class	E908

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A Promised Land is a memoir by Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. Published on November 17, 2020, it is the first of a planned two-volume series. Remaining focused on his political career, the presidential memoir documents Obama's life from his early years through to the events surrounding the killing of Osama bin Laden in May 2011. The book is 768 pages long and available in digital, paperback, and hardcover formats and has been translated into two dozen languages. There is also a 29-hour audiobook edition that is read by Obama himself.

The book has received many reviews and was put on end-of-year best-of lists by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. Commercially, it has been highly successful and, as of the February 7, 2021 issue, the book has been the New York Times best-seller in non-fiction for ten consecutive weeks.^[1][2][3] The book was highly anticipated and, two months before its release, The New York Times remarked that it was "virtually guaranteed" to be the year's top seller, despite its mid-November release date.^[4]