Before winning the US Presidential election, Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was already busy making history. Obama was the third African-American to be elected into the U.S. Senate of Illinois in 2005 and according to Encyclopaedia Britannica Online in the article "United States Presidential Election of 2008," the first sitting U.S. senate to win the election to presidency since John F. Kennedy in 1960.
Barack Obama gained national recognition during the first U.S. senate race in which two of the leading candidates were African-Americans. He stood apart from his competition when he delivered his address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. His speech included a personal recount of his biography with the theme that all Americans were connected in ways that surpassed political, cultural, and geographical differences (Britannica).
The address at the convention was very powerful, and it pushed Obama’s first book “Dreams from My Father,” a memoir published in 1995, onto best-sellers lists. In August 2006, Obama published a second book, “The Audacity of Hope.” The book contained Obama’s vision for change for the United States, and it immediately became a best-seller.
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