TY  - GEN
AU  - Barrack, Obama
TI  - The audacity of hope: thoughts on reclaiming the American Dream
SN  - 9781847670830
U1  - 328.73092 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Canongate Books
KW  - Obama
KW  - Barack --Philosophy
KW  - United States. Congress. Senate --Biography
KW  - Legislators --United States --Biography
KW  - African American legislators --Biography
KW  - National characteristics, Ideals (Philosophy)    United States --Politics and government --Philosophy , United States --Politics and government --2001-
N1  - Includes index
N2  - At the heart of this book is Barack Obamas vision of how we can move beyond our divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families,  the racial and religious tensions within the body politic,  and the transnational threatsfrom terrorism to pandemicthat gather beyond our shores. And he grapples with the role that faith plays in a democracywhere it is vital and where it must never intrude. Underlying his stories about family,  friends,  and members of the Senate is a vigorous search for connection: the foundation for a radically hopeful political consensus. A public servant and a lawyer,  a professor and a father,  a Christian and a skeptic,  and above all a student of history and human nature,  Barack Obama has written a book of transforming power. Only by returning to the principles that gave birth to our Constitution,  he says,  can Americans repair a political process that is broken,  and restore to working order a government that has fallen dangerously out of touch with millions of ordinary Americans. Those Americans are out there,  he writeswaiting for Republicans and Democrats to catch up with them. From the Hardcover edition
ER  -