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Obama's Newly-Released Memoir Breaks First-Day Sales Record
Around 887,000 units were sold in the US and Canada, which includes pre-order sales and first-day sales, CNN reported citing Penguin Random House. The publisher said this sale represented "the largest first-day sales total for any book ever published" by the company.
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"Spent Childhood Listening To Ramayana, Mahabharata": Obama In Memoir
Former US President Barack Obama said that he has always held a special place for India due to his childhood years spent in Indonesia listening to the epic Hindu tales of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
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"My Fascination With India Had To Do With Mahatma Gandhi": Obama In Book
Former US President Barack Obama has said that his fascination with India largely revolved around Mahatma Gandhi, whose "successful non-violent campaign against the British rule became a beacon for other dispossessed, marginalised groups".
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Obama On Manmohan Singh, Gandhis, BJP, "Divisive Nationalism" In Book
Barack Obama's comments on Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi in his memoir "A Promised Land", widely reported last week, drew reactions from both sides of the spectrum with members of the ruling BJP flagging the former US President's critical observations on the former Congress president.
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Obama Praised Manmohan Singh, No Mention Of PM Modi: Shashi Tharoor
Former US President Barack Obama's memoirs have "huge praise for Manmohan Singh" but Prime Minister Narendra Modi "is not mentioned by name at all", Congress leader Shashi Tharoor says in a series of tweets. Mr Tharoor wrote that he had an advance copy of the first of Obama's two-part memoir "A Promised Land", releasing Tuesday and had read every b...
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Obama's Remark On Rahul Gandhi "Distasteful", Says Shiv Sena
Responding to remarks on Rahul Gandhi made by former US president Barack Obama in his memoir "A Promised Land", Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut, questioned Barack Obama's knowledge about India and said that a foreign politician cannot give such opinions on Indian political leaders.
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Rahul Gandhi "Eager To Impress, But Deep Down...": Obama In Book
Former US President Barack Obama, in his newly published political memoir "A Promised Land", has drawn sketches of several leaders of the US and other nations which includes Rahul Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, according to a report in the New York Times. The UPA government, led by Mr Singh, was in power for part of Mr Obama's dec...
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Barack Obama Is the Next Guest on Apple TV+’s The Oprah Conversation
Oprah Winfrey will interview former US President Barack Obama on Apple TV+’s The Oprah Conversation. The episode, slated on the same day as the launch of Obama’s memoir “A Promised Land”, arrives Tuesday, November 17.
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"Would Never Forgive Trump," Writes Michelle Obama In Memoir
In her memoir, former US First Lady Michelle Obama has ripped President Trump's spreading of the "birther" conspiracy theory against her husband Barack Obama.
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Multi-Million Dollar Book Contracts Could Await The Obamas
As US President Barack Obama's term at the White House nears an end, multi-million dollar book contracts could await him and wife Michelle Obama, with major publishers predicting post-presidency memoirs penned by the couple will be the "most valuable" ever.
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Barack Obama Team Wanted US Out of Iraq: Former Pentagon Chief
Former Pentagon chief Leon Panetta has denounced the White House in a new memoir, accusing President Barack Obama's top aides of undercutting efforts to secure a deal in 2011 that could have kept US troops in Iraq.
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Former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticizes president in memoir
U.S. President Barack Obama lacked belief in his administration's policy toward the war in Afghanistan and was skeptical it would even succeed, his former defense secretary, Robert Gates, writes in a memoir to be published next week.
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Hillary Clinton takes a rest, how weird is that?
Hillary Rodham Clinton's plan for 2013 was simple. She'd embark on an epic swansong around the world as secretary of state, a dizzying itinerary of east-west and north-south flights that would take her past 1 million miles in the air at the helm of American diplomacy and perhaps break her own record of 112 countries visited while in the post. Then...
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Obama's Newly-Released Memoir Breaks First-Day Sales Record
Around 887,000 units were sold in the US and Canada, which includes pre-order sales and first-day sales, CNN reported citing Penguin Random House. The publisher said this sale represented "the largest first-day sales total for any book ever published" by the company.
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"Spent Childhood Listening To Ramayana, Mahabharata": Obama In Memoir
Former US President Barack Obama said that he has always held a special place for India due to his childhood years spent in Indonesia listening to the epic Hindu tales of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
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"My Fascination With India Had To Do With Mahatma Gandhi": Obama In Book
Former US President Barack Obama has said that his fascination with India largely revolved around Mahatma Gandhi, whose "successful non-violent campaign against the British rule became a beacon for other dispossessed, marginalised groups".
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Obama On Manmohan Singh, Gandhis, BJP, "Divisive Nationalism" In Book
Barack Obama's comments on Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi in his memoir "A Promised Land", widely reported last week, drew reactions from both sides of the spectrum with members of the ruling BJP flagging the former US President's critical observations on the former Congress president.
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Obama Praised Manmohan Singh, No Mention Of PM Modi: Shashi Tharoor
Former US President Barack Obama's memoirs have "huge praise for Manmohan Singh" but Prime Minister Narendra Modi "is not mentioned by name at all", Congress leader Shashi Tharoor says in a series of tweets. Mr Tharoor wrote that he had an advance copy of the first of Obama's two-part memoir "A Promised Land", releasing Tuesday and had read every b...
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Obama's Remark On Rahul Gandhi "Distasteful", Says Shiv Sena
Responding to remarks on Rahul Gandhi made by former US president Barack Obama in his memoir "A Promised Land", Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut, questioned Barack Obama's knowledge about India and said that a foreign politician cannot give such opinions on Indian political leaders.
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Rahul Gandhi "Eager To Impress, But Deep Down...": Obama In Book
Former US President Barack Obama, in his newly published political memoir "A Promised Land", has drawn sketches of several leaders of the US and other nations which includes Rahul Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, according to a report in the New York Times. The UPA government, led by Mr Singh, was in power for part of Mr Obama's dec...
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Barack Obama Is the Next Guest on Apple TV+’s The Oprah Conversation
Oprah Winfrey will interview former US President Barack Obama on Apple TV+’s The Oprah Conversation. The episode, slated on the same day as the launch of Obama’s memoir “A Promised Land”, arrives Tuesday, November 17.
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"Would Never Forgive Trump," Writes Michelle Obama In Memoir
In her memoir, former US First Lady Michelle Obama has ripped President Trump's spreading of the "birther" conspiracy theory against her husband Barack Obama.
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Multi-Million Dollar Book Contracts Could Await The Obamas
As US President Barack Obama's term at the White House nears an end, multi-million dollar book contracts could await him and wife Michelle Obama, with major publishers predicting post-presidency memoirs penned by the couple will be the "most valuable" ever.
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Barack Obama Team Wanted US Out of Iraq: Former Pentagon Chief
Former Pentagon chief Leon Panetta has denounced the White House in a new memoir, accusing President Barack Obama's top aides of undercutting efforts to secure a deal in 2011 that could have kept US troops in Iraq.
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Former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticizes president in memoir
U.S. President Barack Obama lacked belief in his administration's policy toward the war in Afghanistan and was skeptical it would even succeed, his former defense secretary, Robert Gates, writes in a memoir to be published next week.
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Hillary Clinton takes a rest, how weird is that?
Hillary Rodham Clinton's plan for 2013 was simple. She'd embark on an epic swansong around the world as secretary of state, a dizzying itinerary of east-west and north-south flights that would take her past 1 million miles in the air at the helm of American diplomacy and perhaps break her own record of 112 countries visited while in the post. Then...
