Works by
Barack Obama
(U.S. Senator, Writer)

Audio

• The Essential Barack Obama: The Grammy Award-Winning Recordings (2008)

• The Promise of History: Establishing the Blessings of Liberty & Equality (2008)

Nonfiction

• A Children's Book (In Progress) with Michelle Obama
  Profits will go to charity.

• Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise (2008)
  At this defining moment in our history, Americans are hungry for change. After years of failed policies and failed politics from Washington, this is our chance to reclaim the American dream. Barack Obama has proven to be a new kind of leader–one who can bring people together, be honest about the challenges we face, and move this nation forward. Change We Can Believe In outlines his vision for America.
   
  In these pages you will find bold and specific ideas about how to fix our ailing economy and strengthen the middle class, make health care affordable for all, achieve energy independence, and keep America safe in a dangerous world. Change We Can Believe In asks you not just to believe in Barack Obama’s ability to bring change to Washington, it asks you to believe in yours.

• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2006)
  In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Senator Obama called “the audacity of hope.”
  
  Now, in The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics–a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the “endless clash of armies” we see in congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of “our improbable experiment in democracy.” He explores those forces–from the fear of losing to the perpetual need to raise money to the power of the media–that can stifle even the best-intentioned politician. He also writes, with surprising intimacy and self-deprecating humor, about settling in as a senator, seeking to balance the demands of public service and family life, and his own deepening religious commitment.
  
  At the heart of this book is Senator Obama’s vision of how we can move beyond our divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families, the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and the transnational threats–from terrorism to pandemic–that gather beyond our shores. And he grapples with the role that faith plays in a democracy–where it is vital and where it must never intrude. Underlying his stories about family, friends, members of the Senate, even the president, is a vigorous search for connection: the foundation for a radically hopeful political consensus.
  
  A senator and a lawyer, a professor and a father, a Christian and a skeptic, and above all a student of history and human nature, Senator Obama has written a book of transforming power. Only by returning to the principles that gave birth to our Constitution, he says, can Americans repair a political process that is broken, and restore to working order a government that has fallen dangerously out of touch with millions of ordinary Americans. Those Americans are out there, he writes–“waiting for Republicans and Democrats to catch up with them.”

• Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995)
  In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.

Other

• Barack Obama: What He Believes In - From His Own Works (2008)
  We are all familiar with the phenomenon known as Barack Obama. However, many of us don't know what he has worked for while in the Senate-what sort of legislation has he, himself, sponsored or co-sponsored. This book provides an invaluable glimpse of what the Senator feels passionately about, listing and detailing all of the Senate Bills and Resolutions that Senator Barack Obama sponsored or co-sponsored during 2007, the first term of the 110th Congress.

  • It also lists all the co-sponsors of these bills so you can see who he has worked with-which Democratic and Republican Senators he has reached out to for these legislative initiatives.

  • Because of the complexity of some of the Bills and Resolutions, each of the pieces (with the exception of two) are accompanied by highlighted, official summaries of the legislation that clearly, in simple language, outlines the intent and impact of that Bill or Resolution.

  • The legislation covered here encompasses a wide variety of subjects, including Iran and Iraq, US energy policy and health care.

  Take a look for yourself at what Senator Obama has done during the 110th Congress of the United States during 2007.

• Eleven Speeches of Senator Barack Obama (2008, Kindle Edition)
  The text, from public domain sources, of eleven speeches delivered during 2007 by Senator Barack Obama, on diverse topics such as the War in Iraq, Latin America, Zimbabwe, Urban Violence, Government Reform, Immigration, and Israel.

See also:

• The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality (2008) by Jerome R Corsi

• An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama -- A Primer (2008) by David Olive

• Barack Obama vs. John McCain - Side by Side Senate Voting Record for Easy Comparison (2008) by Barack Obama and John McCain
  t is often difficult to ignore the hype and find out what the candidates really believe in. During this election, however, voters have the unique advantage of access to the actual voting records of both candidates.

  • This book lists every legislation considered by the U.S. Senate between January 6, 2005 and May 22, 2008 and shows you how Senator Obama and Senator McCain voted on each of these issues.

  • Here are hundreds of votes each of them cast (or didn't cast-the book also shows every legislation the candidate didn't vote on). Each candidate's votes are listed side by side for easy comparison.

  • The book also includes a one-page summary of votes that shows, among other statistics, how many times each has voted with the other and how many times each has voted against the other.

  • Finally, for those readers who want to obtain more extensive details on the legislation mentioned in this book, the book gives clear instructions on how to access such information using the internet (there is no cost for accessing this information).

• Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope  (2008) by Nikki Grimes with Bryan Collier, Illustrator
  Ages 4-8

• Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle: 366 Ways He Really Cares (2008) by Mathew Honan

• Barack Obama for Beginners: An Essential Guide (2008) by Bob Neer with Joe Lee, Illustrator

• Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It (2008) by Dick Morris and Eileen Mcgann

• Obama - The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate (2008) by Webster Griffin Tarpley

• Obamamania!: The English Language, Barackafied (2008) by the editors of Slate

• Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency (2008) by Robert Kuttner
  Barack Obama approaches the Presidency at a critical moment in American history, facing simultaneous crises of war, the environment, health care, but most especially in the economy. If he is able to rise to the moment, he could join the ranks of a small handful of previous presidents who have been truly transformative, succeeding in fundamentally changing our economy, society, and democracy for the better.
  
  But this will require imaginative and decisive action as Obama takes office, action bolder than he has promised during his campaign, and will be all the more difficult given the undertow of conventional wisdom in Washington and on Wall Street that resists fundamental change. Decades of regressive politics and political gridlock have left America in its most precarious situation since the onset of the Great Depression. The collapse of the housing bubble continues, as does the financial meltdown it triggered; a revival of 1970s style stagflation threatens; incomes continue to lag behind inflation; our household and international debts pile higher; disastrous climate change looms; energy and food prices continue their escalation; and the ranks of un- and under-insured Americans grow, the clearest, and most heartless, example of America’s destructive inequalities.
  
  Solutions to our multiple challenges do exist, but they won’t be found in overly cautious or expedient quick fixes. With his exceptional skill at appealing to our better angels, Barack Obama could be the right leader at the right time to re-awaken America to the renewed promise of shared prosperity coupled with responsibility towards future generations and the international community with whom we share the Earth. Invoking America’s greatest leaders, Robert Kuttner explains how Obama must be a transformative president—or a failed one.

• Should Barack Obama Be President? (2008) by W. Frederick Zimmerman

• The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate (2008) by David Freddoso

• The Faith of Barack Obama (2008) by Stephen Mansfield

• The Rise of Barack Obama (2008) by Pete Souza (words and photographs)

• Why Obama Matters (2008, Kindle Edition) by Floyd Earl Smith
  10 reasons to elect Barack Obama for president.  Includes "In Obama's America".

• Yes We Can: A Biography of Barack Obama (2008) by Garen Thomas
  Ages 9-12.

• A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win (2007) by Shelby Steele

• Barack Obama: An American Story (2007) by Roberta Edwards with Ken Call, Illustrator
  Ages 4-8

• Barack Obama in His Own Words (2007), Lisa Rogak, ed.

• Barack Obama, the New Face of American Politics (2007) by Martin Dupuis with Keith Boeckelman

• Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest (2007) by John K. Wilson

• Hopes and Dreams: The Story of Barack Obama (2007) by Steve Dougherty

• Obama: From Promise to Power (2007) by David Mendell

• Barack Obama: Working to Make a Difference (2006) by Marlene Targ Brill
  Ages 9-12.

• Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others (2006) by James Daley