Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
President Barack Obama Talks LGBTQ+ Lives and A Promised Land
A Promised Land, was named one of the 10 Best Books of the year by The New York Times — and it's not liberal bias. Obama is as thoughtful and weighty a writer as they come, and his prose in print is as evocative as his public speeches often were.
At times it's granular, at others grandiose (but without the pretension that usually accompanies the latter). Now that A Promised Land (Crown) is available in paperback as well, Obama spoke to us about Fox News, LGBTQ+ rights, President Biden, and whether Republicans are winning over voters with their war on trans people.The Advocate: I love that you describe your maternal grandparents as Midwesterners, with no ideological or partisan leanings beyond what they thought of as common sense.
