Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy
He invited authors and historians to the White House and had already published a best-selling memoir. That didn’t make writing his latest book, “A Promised Land,” any less of a grind.
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| President Barack Obama on a visit to Midway Atoll in 2016. Literature is more important than ever, he says. “We need to explain to each other who we are and where we’re going.”Credit...A.J. Chavar/The New York Times |
