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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Your Privacy Controls. In the book, Michelle Obama chronicles her life before and after becoming the first African-American first lady in US history. Hisham Matar's 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir takes readers through a tale of fathers and sons, loss and healing. Patrick Deenen, a professor of political science at Notre Dame, argues in this provocative book how liberalism is built upon a foundation of contradictions. After one of her brothers made it to college, Westover decided it was time to leave the world she grew up in and seek an education for herself. Arranged in five sections, the essays cover a variety of topics and questions, from Facebook to libraries, offering a number of takes on current events, culture and politics, as well as Smith's life. Payne explores how not just being poor but feeling poor matters in both personal and national development. Payne touches on how women in poor countries tend to have more children and at a younger age, how people's perception of their social status affects their political views, and how poverty raises stress levels as effectively as physical threats. In "Becoming," the former first lady opens up about her disappointments and triumphs and even shares some headline-making details about life in the White House. The daughter of a Burmese mother and a white American father, Wagner always thought of herself as a face from the future — when "all races would merge into a brown singularity." If you're looking for something to read, listen to or watch heading into the new year, Barack Obama has shared his list of his favorite books, songs and movies of 2018.
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President Barack Obama shared his 29 favorite books of 2018 on Friday. David W. Blight's biography of Frederick Douglass takes readers through new information previously held in a private collection on the life of the escaped slave who became a leading abolitionist.
It also gives me a chance to highlight talented authors, artists, and storytellers – some who are household names and others who you may not have heard of before." In his best-known novel, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o, a Nobel Prize-nominee, writes about a group of villagers living at the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain.
HuffPost is part of Verizon Media. Years later, Nathaniel begins uncovering the mysterious circumstances of their upbringing. The New York Times Book Review called Blight's book "Cinematic and deeply engaging ... a tour de force of storytelling.". Famed author Zadie Smith is known not only for her bestsellers "White Teeth" and "On Beauty," but also for her brilliant essays often published in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. ☝️, Awesome, You’re All Set! "A Grain of Wheat" takes place in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and tells the story of Mugo, the village's hero, who is haunted by a terrible secret. In a Facebook post, former President Barack Obama listed his favorite books of 2018. "It gives me a moment to pause and reflect on the year through the books, movies, and music that I found most thought-provoking, inspiring, or just plain loved.
Alex Wagner's "Futureface" takes readers down the author's obsession to find out more about her family's racial and ethnic history.
Edugyan's tale takes readers through an examination of love, freedom, and redemption. By signing up, I agree to the Terms & to receive emails from POPSUGAR. Ngozi Adichie has received wide praise for her tackling of different societies and tensions among populations — particularly her depiction of blackness across America, Britain, and Nigeria.
The world knows he loves to read books.
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In "The World As It Is," Rhodes brings readers into the day-to-day of the Obama administration, from the daily briefings to some of the most consequential and controversial moments of his presidency. "Warlight," a novel by Canadian author Michael Ondaatje, is a story of love, violence, and enigma. “As 2018 draws to a close, I’m continuing a favorite tradition of mine and sharing my year-end lists,” Obama wrote in a post on Facebook on Friday morning. News for the next era, not just the next hour.
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"As 2018 draws to a close, I’m continuing a favorite tradition of mine and sharing my year-end lists,” Obama wrote on Facebook Friday.