Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters
Barack Obama, illustrations by Loren Long
Alfred A. Knopf
Nonfiction, CH History/Picture Book
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Description
President Barack Obama writes an open letter of love and hope to his children.
Review
It was another slow work day, and this was on top of the bin. (Well, this and a James Patterson novel.) An inspiring read, it offers thirteen reasons why America is a land of hope and opportunity, embodied in thirteen visionaries from our nation's history - not all of them obvious choices. Men and women, blacks and whites, immigrants and natives, all have something to contribute. If only grown-ups were so easy to convince...