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‘s new book “A Promised Land” has been out for less than 48 hours and it’s already sold roughly 1 million copies, making it the bestselling presidential memoir in modern history.The only book by a former White House resident to come close to those early sales figures is Michelle Obama’s “Becoming,” which sold 725,000 copies its first day of publication back in 2018.The takeaway: People clearly like the Obamas!In “A Promised Land,” Obama briefly mentions Sarah Palin, John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential campaign who later went on to become a contestant on The Masked Singer.Writes Obama:Through Palin, it seemed as if the dark spirits that had long been lurking on the edges of the modern Republican.