Essay On The Audacity Of Hope

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Based on historical facts of the author's life. The Audacity of Hope is a book written by the United States ex-president Barack Obama published by Crown Publishing Group in 2006, the beginning of his presidential campaign. The content of the book is dense in ideas and values; details of his biography and his fluid narrative creates a pleasant reading environment.
The central point of reflection in this book is the rescue of original values of the American people who have been betrayed prolog doing politics; Politicians do not represent these epilog values that subsist in the American people. It is necessary to change the way of doing politics, he does not yet know how to do it but affirms that is urgent to do so, with the audacity of hope.
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In the prolog explains that he is already ten years of being in politics. Then in the following chapters he talks about controversial issues that still exist in the US government like, the differences between the Democratic and Republican party, values that have been lost over the years by politicians, the need to create a market of ideas in the sense of reaching agreements, the search for the transformation of power, up to the fifth chapter.
This is the central chapter of the book, where he shows his country as the country of opportunities. A country where the freedom to educate, to undertake and to progress has no limits. This is why he has been the target of all kinds of immigration from all over the world, in search of the American dream, enjoyed by the founding fathers and the programmed immigration of Europeans to populate that immense territory. Its intention is the rescue of those values, because of the dream has happened to the nightmare for the new immigrants.
After this chapter, he continues to talk about controversial topics such as faith, religion, the dissertation on human races, and finally he talks about his family and concern about the current state of American families. To end in the epilog, he tells how his daily customs have not changed at

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