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Memoir Of Barack Obama

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy

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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.

Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of November 4, 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office.

Reflecting on the presidency, he offers a unique and thoughtful exploration of both the awesome reach and the limits of presidential power, as well as singular insights into the dynamics of U.S. partisan politics and international diplomacy. Obama brings readers inside the Oval Office and the White House Situation Room, and to Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, and points beyond. We are privy to his thoughts as he assembles his cabinet, wrestles with a global financial crisis, takes the measure of Vladimir Putin, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds to secure passage of the Affordable Care Act, clashes with generals about U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, tackles Wall Street reform, responds to the devastating Deepwater Horizon blowout, and authorizes Operation Neptune’s Spear, which leads to the death of Osama bin Laden.

A Promised Land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective—the story of one man’s bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage. Obama is candid about the balancing act of running for office as a Black American, bearing the expectations of a generation buoyed by messages of “hope and change,” and meeting the moral challenges of high-stakes decision-making. He is frank about the forces that opposed him at home and abroad, open about how living in the White House affected his wife and daughters, and unafraid to reveal self-doubt and disappointment. Yet he never wavers from his belief that inside the great, ongoing American experiment, progress is always possible.

This beautifully written and powerful book captures Barack Obama’s conviction that democracy is not a gift from on high but something founded on empathy and common understanding and built together, day by day.

Crown is proud to partner with these international publishers for the worldwide publication of A Promised Land. An English-language edition will be published in the UK and British Commonwealth territories by Viking, an imprint of Penguin General Books at Penguin Random House UK. It will also be available in the following languages:

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• Former President Barack Obama has written about how his administration developed a pandemic response strategy, in a memoir excerpt published by The New Yorker.
• In 2009 he pulled together an inter-agency team in response to the H1N1 swine flu that killed 12,469 Americans, he recalled.
• The approach to communication, preparedness and distribution of supplies was markedly different to President Donald Trump's coronavirus pandemic response.
• The playbook produced by the Obama administration in the swine flu outbreak went on to be ignored by the Trump administration, Politico reported.
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Former President Barack Obama described how he developed a pandemic response strategy in his time in office — one that would go on to be ignored by the Trump administration during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

In an extract of his new memoir, 'A Promised Land,' published Monday by The New Yorker, Obama wrote about the playbook he developed when a new strain of H1N1 — better known as swine flu — threatened the US.

The virus would become a pandemic and go on to kill 12,469 Americans. It was a topic Obama was already familiar with, he wrote, since he worked on pandemic preparedness as a senator. 'What I knew scared the hell out of me,' he said.

Obama explained how the deadly outbreak hit the US in the Spring, just as he was grappling with what would become the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.

'Within weeks, people in the United States were falling ill with the virus: one in Ohio, two in Kansas, eight in a single high school in New York City,' he wrote.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic in June 2009.

'It was too early to tell how deadly this new virus would be,' wrote the former president. 'But I wasn't interested in taking any chances.'

He described how he flew the new Health and Human Services Director, Kathleen Sebelius, into the Oval Office the same day she was confirmed. He also put together a team to assess how ready the US was for a worst-case scenario.

'The answer was that we weren't at all ready,' he wrote. Existing flu vaccines were mostly ineffective against swine flu, and there was little capacity to produce new ones, according to Obama.

'Then, we faced questions of how to distribute antiviral medicines, what guidelines hospitals used in treating cases of the flu, and even how we'd handle the possibility of closing schools and imposing quarantines if things got significantly worse,' he wrote.

He recalled being advised to let medical experts run the show.

'My instructions to the public-health team were simple: decisions would be made based on the best available science, and we were going to explain to the public each step of our response — including detailing what we did and didn't know,' he wrote. 'Over the course of the next six months, we did exactly that.'

The former president noted that the H1N1 strain did not turn out to be as deadly as feared, and that this was largely the reason the US was not overwhelmed by the virus.

A very different response

Like the Trump administration's Operation Warp Speed in response to the coronavirus, Obama wrote that he too created incentives for vaccine production.

But many of the actions Obama describes taking in the memoir are markedly different to the pandemic response of the Trump era.

Obama said his administration prioritized transparent communication. In contrast, President Donald Trump repeatedly downplayed the virus in public but acknowledged its danger to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward.

While the Trump administration left the sourcing of key medical supplies such as PPE to individual states — producing competition between them — medical supplies were 'pre-positioned' across regions, Obama wrote.

He said his team considered closing schools, but didn't opt for it in the end.

Obama wrote that it was this planning that 'would make all the difference' during the panic of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014, which made limited inroads into the US before being stopped.

Obama's National Security Council produced a 70-page pandemic playbook from the experience, Politico reported.

It never became part of official White House policy, but addressed many of the questions faced by the Trump administration amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the outlet.

However, the Trump administration ignored it. Obama officials held a pandemic training for incoming Trump officials in January 2017, but it was attended unenthusiastically, Politico reported.

'There were people who were there who said, 'This is really stupid and why do we need to be here,' an Obama source told Politico. One cabinet member, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, reportedly fell asleep.

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Obama has also privately ripped into the Trump administration's response, telling former members of his administration it was an 'absolute chaotic disaster' in a recording obtained by Yahoo News in May.

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Read the full extract here.