A Promised Land

A Promised Land is a memoir by Barack Obama, President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. The book was released on November 17, 2020, soon after the national elections, in hardcover, digital and audiobook formats. Penguin Books reported that the book sold 887,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada its first day. By November 24 2020, the book had sold over 1.7 million copies in North America- breaking the record for first week sales of a presidential memoir.

About A Promised Land in brief

Summary A Promised LandA Promised Land is a memoir by Barack Obama, President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. The book was released on November 17, 2020, soon after the national elections, in hardcover, digital and audiobook formats. On November 18, Penguin Books reported that the book sold 887,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada its first day. By November 24 2020, the book had sold over 1.7 million copies in North America- breaking the record for first week sales of a presidential memoir.

Alongside the English original, 24 translations will be published: Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish