Wow, I had missed this one -- "Obama to Write Foreword for Mandela Book."

[quiet.american]

President Obama is making a brief return to friendly territory: the book industry.

He has agreed to write the foreword for “Conversations with Myself” by Nelson Mandela, the publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, announced Wednesday. The book is set for publication on Oct. 12.

The publisher described the book as “a sweeping narrative of great immediacy and stunning power.” It draws on Mr. Mandela’s journals from the early 1960s, his diaries written while in prison, speeches and recorded conversations.

Mr. Obama is well known as a publishing superstar whose books, “Dreams From My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope,” spent long stretches on the best-seller lists. Mr. Mandela wrote a memoir, “The Long Walk to Freedom,” in 1995.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/obama-writes-foreword-for-mandela-book/

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Perfect. Now if I could get both their autographs on the book, that would really be perfect. (And God bless Mandela at this time - what a shocking loss of his little great-grandaughter.)

[Cha]

1. Thanks for this, QA..I really didn't

have the time to read the details when I saw the caption the other night in GDP.

What an honor for President Obama.