Review of A Promised Land By Barack Obama (2020, Viking, €29.99) by
By Mehar Luthra
I used to pride myself on being the most politically unaware human on the planet. I revelled in my political illiteracy. Politics was a snooze-fest. Until, that is, the advent of Obama and Trump. Obama came along, made politics cool and accessible and inclusive and he actually talked
sense. But in defiance of what I thought was history’s established course, after eight years, we were given an inarticulate and divisive, orange-tanned monster who made no pretensions of being intelligent, smart or even particularly interested in his citizenry.