Ep 460 - A Promised Land, by Barack Obama (w/ Kamille Washington)
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Returning guest Kamille Washington joins us this week to chat about A Promised Land, the first in former President Barack Obama's (planned) two-part presidential autobiography. We talk about the functions these books serve, both for the writer and the reader, and whether this book's recounting of Obama's early presidency squares with our experience with and memory of it a decade later (apologies to our listeners without a working knowledge of US politics, this one might be a little inaccessible).
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| 1:31.7 | My name is Craig. My name is Andrew and we have a special guest whose name is? |
| 1:36.0 | It's me Camille. |
| 1:41.2 | Welcome back to our show. It's good to be back. It's been a while. |
| 1:45.3 | Yeah. What books have we had you talk about so far? |
| 1:49.0 | We talked about the witch book, the author witch book. |
| 1:52.3 | Hex. Yes. We talked about was it Nicholas Sparks? Was the a walk to remember? Yes. |
| 1:58.3 | Yes. Yes. So some real a real wide breadth of topics that we consider you an expert on apparently. |
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