The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Reviews

Barack Obama followed up his first book "Dreams From My Father" with the "Audacity of Hope". While Dreams From My Father was more about his childhood, The Audacity of Hope gives the reader a great look into his political philosophies, tribulations as a young politician, and the aspirations for the American Dream. One might describe the political philosophy of Barack Obama, as detailed in the book, as an individual that is caught in the middle of an often polarizing social and political structure. While it is often the case that Democrats and Republicans make political grandstanding about their...

What a great read!  I am not very politically knowledable, but this was easy to understand.  It gives the reader great hope for change in layman's terms.  This book provides a nice history lesson too and how the country has changed for the worse since the Bush administration. 

 This book shows Barack Obama as a down to earth man who really wants to change our country for the better.  He wants to help the average American and the middle class citizen, of which makes up the majority of the country.  I was impressed, and a little bit surprised with his quotes from Warren Buffet, who is the...

Are you kidding me!Reclaiming the american dream.What the heck is that!I'm gonna tell it like it is in this country!The american dream is for "WHITE PEOPLE."What the media is doing to Obama is deplorable!The closer he gets to winning the democratic nomination,the more ridiculous crap they come up with to try to humiliate him.Obama idea of the american dream is so far fetched,maybe he doesn't deserve to be president.There is still to much racism in this country to even hope for change.I have been through some of these small towns in Indiana where they wouldn't let me even buy a hamburger because...