Well, it’s quite the title, isn’t it? It tends to invite comparisons. The first one that occurred to me, though, was that the original Promised Land guy managed to get all the important stuff down on two stone tablets. His would-be successor doesn’t have quite that gift for compression. As he semi-apologises in the opening pages (he feels bad about it, but not bad enough to do a ruthless edit), this memoir was originally envisioned as a 500-pager.
Sam Leith
Barack Obama was decidedly a man of action as well as words
Many of his triumphs, particularly the Affordable Care Act, were fought for with steely determination in the teeth of ferocious opposition
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