Books of the Week: A Promised Land, Oh Happy Day, Olga

New releases from Barack Obama, Carmen Callil and Bernhard Schlink

Barack Obama’s memoir A Promised Land
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Barack Obama delivers “frank confessions of his uncertainties and doubts” in an account of his rise to power and the beginning of his presidency. Australian-born Carmen Callil challenges Britain’s “snotty imperial delusions” in a sweeping and heartfelt family memoir. And Bernhard Schlink, author of The Reader, creates another “study of memory” and of Germany’s tortured history.

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