The Inaugural Address, 2009 by Barack Obama
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- Pub. Date: February 2009
- 112pp
- Sales Rank: 46,116
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: February 2009
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
- Format: Hardcover, 112pp
- Sales Rank: 46,116
- ISBN-13: 9780143116424
- ISBN: 0143116428
Synopsis
Celebrate the inauguration of America's 44th president with this New York Times bestseller
Tying into the official theme for the 2009 inaugural ceremony, "A New Birth of Freedom" from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Penguin presents a keepsake edition commemorating the inauguration of President Barack Obama with words of the two great thinkers and writers who have helped shape him politically, philosophically, and personally: Abraham Lincoln and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Having Lincoln and Emerson's most influential, memorable, and eloquent words along with Obama's historic inaugural address will be a gift of inspiration for every American for generations to come.
Biography
BARACK OBAMA became the first African American to be elected President of the United States on November 4, 2008.
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A memento of a momentous occasion.by Anonymous
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April 06, 2009: President Obama's inaugural address is presented in this small, but nicely published chapbook alongside Lincoln's first and second inaugural speeches with good reason. Both men represented the nation in times of turmoil, cultural changes and futures that were yet unwritten but may well prove to be turning points in our nation's history.
The touchstones of Obama's speech echo many themes in Lincoln's second address as well as in the direct manner in which they were written. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which is also included here, tells of mending old wounds and giving aid onto fresh scars can be found in Obama's words and his charge to remember the past while looking hopefully to the future is surely found in Lincoln's second inaugural address. The final section is Emerson's wonderful essay, "Self Reliance" in which he states eloquently the necessity to seek out non-conformity as well as the courage to look for new ways to accomplish one's self-determined purposes and goals.The book is a fine memento of not only this most recent historic events, but those words and thoughts that undoubtedly lead us these moments.
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