Barack Obama Announces Memoir Release Date

Former United State President Barack Obama has released the publication date of the first half of his memoirs.

Mr Obama – the first black president – said the book would “try to provide an honest account of my presidency”.

A Promised Land is set for release on 17th of November, just two weeks after the US presidential election.

The Democratic leader won two elections and served as president between 2009 and 2017.

Joe Biden – his vice-president for those two terms – is challenging Mr Obama’s successor, Republican leader Donald Trump, for the presidency on 3 November.

Mr Obama wrote on Twitter,“There’s no feeling like finishing a book, and I’m proud of this one,” 

Mr Obama writes about the response to the global financial crisis, his landmark healthcare reform legislation known as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, and the 2011 US raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

The 44th president of the US has written three previous books, including Dreams From My Father and The Audacity of Hope as well as the children’s book Of Thee I Sing.

His wife, lawyer and former First Lady Michelle Obama, has published her own memoir. Within five months of publication, Becoming had sold more than 10 million copies.

Mr Obama may struggle to outshine his wife, but this would not be the first time spouses have bested presidents. Both Nancy Reagan and Betty Ford’s memoirs outsold their husbands’ works.