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*Note: This event was previously filmed on April 15th, 2021.

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Former President Barack Obama joins the Los Angeles Times Community Book Club to discuss A PROMISED LAND in a conversation with filmmaker Ava DuVernay.  
In his bestselling memoir, former President Obama takes readers inside his improbable journey: from his political awakening as a freshman at Occidental College, to finding his way as a community organizer and young senator from Chicago, to the day-to-day grind of his grassroots campaign to become the nation’s first Black president.
Times White House reporter Eli Stokols called A PROMISED LAND a fast-moving narrative that “puts the reader in the room at defining moments.”
“Obama draws a textured portrait of himself as a rookie executive — seeking counsel from aides, sneaking cigarettes on the Truman Balcony, frustrated by the constraints on his ambitious agenda but undaunted in pursuing it, even at a steep political cost,” Stokols writes in his review.
A PROMISED LAND covers the first two and half years of Obama’s presidency and is the first of two books.
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