Give-Away!

Anna from Hachette Book Group USA has offered to send this beautiful book to one *winner.

The American Journey of Barack Obama

Editors of LIFE Magazine

Thoughts of Joy

From the dust jacket:

When millions of his countrymen first encountered the young politician from Illinois four years ago, they knew immediately that they had never seen or heard anyone like him before.  As he spoke at the Democratic convention, his eloquent phrases followed one upon another and rose to an astonishing, inspiring level.  The next morning people everywhere asked one another: "Did you see him?"

As America learned more about Barack Obama, they discovered an extraordinary life.  The son of a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas; raised in Hawaii, then Indonesia, then Hawaii again; educated at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the Law Review - this man named Barack seemed an uncanny example of success in the Melting Pot, a true original who had emerged from nowhere and risen to unimaginable heights.  His story is told in these pages in evocative words and intimate pictures, many of them seldom seen, several presented in a book for the first time.

For decades Americans have turned to LIFE to see, understand and remember the most important events and people of our time.  Just as LIFE once opened up the glittering Kennedy White House, LIFE now focuses its lens on Barack Obama.  We travel from Nairobi to Jakarta, from the ivied walls of Harvard Yard to the South Side wards of Chicago, from the floor of the Senate to hinterlands on the presidential campaign trail.  The moments of elation are here, as are the moments of exhaustion.  The unfolding drama of Obama's life and political career is cinematic in scope, and ever has it been presented so richly.

In addition to the powerful array of photographs that were taken by many of the country's greatest photographers (and some that were snapped, in the quiet moments, by Obama family members), this book also includes an incisive narrative biography, a foreword by Senator Edward M. Kennedy and original essays by some of our finest writers.

 

*USA or Canada resident without a PO Box

Winner will be posted on December 18, 2008!

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