"A Promised Land" on sale in a Washington D.C. bookstore ... the author was Barack Obama even if you hadn't seen the news his book generated. (In brief: Obama kept smoking cigarettes even in ...

A Promised Land is the first volume of Obama’s presidential ... He explains that the book’s title is a reference to the story of Moses who led the Israelites out of Egypt.

Despite the varied and nuanced concepts of how to settle in “the promised land” found throughout the Bible, it is the Book of Joshua’s divisions that provide some people today with a model for a ...