In his best-selling second book, published in 2006, Barack Obama calls for a new kind of politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, and 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.

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