A Promised Land

Personal opinion: this book is on the better side of just okay. I liked Michelle's memoir way more. Maybe that's because I'm not the most interested in the inner-workings of the American political system, especially because any first-hand account of that bipartisan system will be inherently very biased; or maybe it's because this was so pragmatically written, in a linear “this is what happened and this is what I did about it” kind of way. Or maybe it's because it's REALLY long. It was interesting to hear more about the big events from his first term because I was young and barely following the news at the time; it was also interesting hearing about his family/personal life. Always the diplomat, Obama was very tactful in his telling of his experience, and it read very much so like his politics; idealistic (in a lovely way, I think), pragmatic, calm, well-paced, but also a little stiff. Still a perfectly decent read.