Obama to Write Foreword for Mandela Book

[Ed Barrow]

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/

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

1. self -censored, ironic observation. nt.

[Clio the Leo]

2. I dont think people realize how much he enjoys writing....

... and how much time she spent writing fiction early in his life.

I look forward to many more books to come.