SOMEDAY: The Promise and Reality of Obama's America - Couverture souple

Stonecastle, Jerrimiah

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798182432948

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

What does it feel like to live through history?

Charles Bennett is a seventy-two-year-old retired school administrator in Birmingham, Alabama. He has spent his life watching America struggle toward its ideals—through segregation, civil rights, and the election of the nation's first Black president. He has seen progress. He has seen backlash. He has learned that history never moves in a straight line.

Now, from his front porch, he watches another chapter unfold.

A More Perfect Union is a work of narrative non-fiction that captures the Obama presidency through the eyes of ordinary Americans—Black and white, young and old, hopeful and skeptical. Through Charlie Bennett and the people in his life, we witness the weight of being first, the audacity of hope, and the long, painful, unfinished journey toward justice.

Part history, part memoir, part warning, this book asks the question every generation must answer: What do we owe to the ones who came before us—and to the ones who will come after?

With the perspective of six decades of American life, a United States Army veteran and former NYPD officer delivers a deeply personal account of a nation wrestling with its own identity. This is not a book about politics. It is a book about the soul of America—and what happens when we forget who we are.

The arc of the moral universe is long. But it bends.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798182432948
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 414
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