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A Promised Land
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A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy
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In the stirring first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of November 4, 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office.
Reflecting on the presidency, he offers a unique and thoughtful
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The First Lady's Travel Journal: Terra Cotta Warriors in X'ian
Note: This post is part of a series authored by First Lady Michelle Obama to share her visit to China with young people in the U.S. You can read all of the First Lady's posts at WhiteHouse.gov/First-Lady-China-Trip, and also on PBS Learning Media and Discovery Education's websites.
This morning we left Beijing and flew for about two hours to Xi’an, a city of more than 7 million people in central China. If Xi’an were in America, it would be the second-largest city in the country – trailing only New York City – but in China, a nation of more than 1 billion people, Xi’an isn’t even in the top 10.
After we arrived at the Xi’an Airport, we traveled to see the Terra Cotta Warriors, an underground army of thousands of life-sized soldiers made from terra cotta clay. These sculptures were hand-made over 2,000 years ago. They surround the tomb of China’s first emperor, and it’s believed that they were created to protect him in the afterlife.
Scientists estimate that there are about 8,000 warriors in three different pits – and many of those warriors remain buried underground. My daughters, my mother, and I