'An American classic, written with grace and precision'
Observer  
     
'Thoughtful, moving and brilliantly written'
The Times     
  
'A man with a phenomenal life story'
Spectator        

'Extraordinary . . . It's unique. It's his. There are no other ones like that'
TONI MORRISON        

'A bestseller because of its freshness and honesty'
Sunday Times  
     
'A well-written account of Obama's struggle to establish his own views on identity and race, and all the more entertaining for its honesty'
Financial Times

'The only politician's life I have read that made me cry . . . elegant and surprising prose as well as a solid personal statement'
The Times        

'With its honesty and cool language, and by virtue of having a story worth telling, the book impresses far more than the typical political memoir'
Sunday Herald        

'Obama has written a memoir . . . that evokes the anguish of miscegenation yet culminates in a cry of faith in human community . . . Obama is a born narrator, with a mastery of colour, scene and personality, deftly stirring them into the melting pot of a shared American identity. Rarely has that identity found so vivid a portraitist'
Sunday Times