
President Barack Obama’s #1 New York Times bestselling audiobook A Promised Land, read by the author, is now a 2022 Best Spoken Word Album GRAMMY® Award nominee. A major literary achievement that brings history vividly to life in his own voice, A Promised Land is a jewel in the canon of presidential memoirs—a recording for posterity that will endure for decades.
Listen to a clip from this extraordinary audiobook production:
In the stirring first volume of his presidential memoirs, A Promised Land, 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.
Watch a video of President Obama discussing recording the audiobook of A Promised Land
The nominations were announced today by the Recording Academy®, and the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards® will be presented on Monday, January 31, 2022. The full list of this year’s nominees can be found here.
Penguin Random House Audio titles have previously earned 17 GRAMMY® Awards and 47 additional GRAMMY® nominations.
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