A Promised Land

A Promised Land is a memoir by Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. Published on November 17, 2020 by Crown Publishing Group in the United States and Viking in the United Kingdom, it is the first of a planned two-volume series. Remaining focused on his political career, the presidential memoir documents Obama's life from his early years through the events surrounding the killing of Osama bin Laden in May 2011. The book has received many reviews and was put on end-of-year best of lists by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. Commercially, it has been extremely successful and, as of 20 December 2020 issue, the book has been the The New York Times Best Seller in non-fiction for three consecutive weeks.^[1][2][3] The book was highly anticipated and, two months before its release, The New York Times remarked that it was "virtually guaranteed" to be the year's top seller, despite its mid-November release date.^[4] The book is 768 pages long and available in digital, paperback, and hardcover formats and has been translated into two dozen languages. There is also a 28 hour audiobook edition that is read by the author.