Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ Poised To Be Bestselling Presidential Memoir

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A Promised Land, former U.S. President Barack Obama’s long-awaited memoir, demolished records for first-day sales Tuesday and is slated to become the bestselling memoir written by a modern American president, the Associated Press reported.

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“We are thrilled with the first day sales,” David Drake, who publishes Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House, told AP. “They reflect the widespread excitement that readers have for President Obama’s highly anticipated and extraordinarily written book.”

Key Background

A Promised Land is Obama’s fourth book. Despite being 768 pages long, it is only the first of a two-part memoir; the release date for the latter volume has not been announced. Obama published his first memoir, Dreams From My Father, in 1995, followed by The Audacity of Hope in 2004, a book that coincided with his first presidential run. He also authored Of Thee I Sing, an illustrated children’s book dedicated to his daughters released in 2008.

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Barack Obama memoir off to record-setting start in sales (Associated Press)