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In Barack Obama’s “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream,” the 46-year-old Illinois senator employs a love of American history and law to lay out his vision for how to restore faith in our economic and political systems.
A former lecturer of constitutional law at the University of Chicago, Obama skillfully builds a case for change based on the belief that this country has always been able to overcome obstacles through the distinctly American attribute of boundless optimism. Given the current problems we face, from downsizing in American corporations and lobbyists scandals to the widening gap between economic classes, Obama writes that it is indeed audacious for marginalized Americans to hope for a better future.
In order to create a scenario for change, Obama utilizes his background as a husband, a father of two young children, a lawyer, a legislator and a man of faith with healthy skepticism for religious zealots. Voters who are weary of the bitter partisanship and divisiveness in national politics will welcome Obama’s appeal for a national unity that shares “common hopes, common dreams, a bond that will not break.”

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The Audacity of Hope
By Barack Obama
Publisher: Crown (October 17, 2006)
ISBN-10: 0307237699
ISBN-13: 978-0307237699

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A Thousand Splendid Suns/
Kite Runner

Double book exploration

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By Chuck Bowen

In his first novel The Kite Runner, and now A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini writes about the Afghans caught in the middle of a seemingly endless string of wars and battles for power. Both novels paint a grim and moving picture of life in a war-torn country, and of lives lived in the face of hunger, death and a bleak future. Hosseini makes you realize that, even while bombs rain down and people are dying of hunger, people still fall in love, seek friends and, mostly, try to remain human.