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A Promised Land, by Barack Obama, to be published in the UK on 17 November

The presidential memoirs of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, will be published in two volumes

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The presidential memoirs of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, will be published in two volumes. The first volume, titled A Promised Land, is scheduled for global release on Tuesday, November 17, 2020, and will be issued simultaneously in 25 languages. The news was announced today by Markus Dohle, CEO of Penguin Random House, which acquired world rights to the highly anticipated work. Dohle also announced the book cover image.

A Promised Land will be published in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa in print and digital formats by Viking, an imprint of Penguin General, a division of Penguin Random House UK. The book will be published in the United States and Canada in hardcover and digital formats by Crown, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House.

A publication date for the second, and concluding, volume of the memoirs has not yet been set and will be announced at a later date. Details about President Obama’s book tour will be announced later this autumn.

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