The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream. by Obama, Barack - 2006

New York: Crown Publishers, 2006. First edition, early printing of Obama's second book. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Barack Obama on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Deborah Feingold. The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope going forward. The Chicago Tribune explained straightforwardly that it is a "political biography that concentrates on the senator's core values."