Writer, Gary Hart
In a more perfect world, all people running for presidency are supposed to be equipped with the Doctor’s Degree of finishing the doctoral dissertation. In a certain sense, the book ‘Hope is Fearless’ is just like a graduate thesis submitted by Obama in Senate. In addition to showing the leading temperament, personal experience, and individual characteristics of Obama in this book; it also reveals his insightful reaction to some domestic events and hotspots issues when he served as the Senator of Illinois as well as his contact to the conflicts in the countries and regions of Middle East and The former Soviet Union.
The book seems to be a quite attractive portray describing a man who is young but mature, an observer who has attached great importance to human’s living environment, a figure who possess a strong will and can write solemn essays. In this book, Obama also shows his extraordinary humor which all dues to his unusually winding life experience.
In an age of globalization, Obama is entitled to a global man while his stories are already household ones. His mother is from Kansas while his father Kenya and his stepfather is an Indonesian; he grew up in two quite different places like Hawaii and Indonesia—all these have made him special the moment he stepped into the Senate and also thanks to these, he was offered an unique perspective to read the honors as well as absurdities of American politics.
Obama is good at eliminating hostility. He admits his ambition, his ‘long-term upset’ emotion and his admiration of those young successful politicians. Before participating in the dangerous Senate ‘gamble’, he was skeptical to profession he had chosen. He implies in the book that he has at least passed by some ‘periods appointed by the exports’: ‘denial, irritation…and desperation.’ Especially in an atmosphere of Tolstoyism, he admits the ‘acceptance of ’’my death’. He has listened to numerous stories from which he comes to a conclusion of Roosevet style:’ Government should offer help.’ He mourns the vanishment of shared public language and the increasing gap between the mythological American life and the realistic one. He also clearly refused to give a Ten-Point-Plan-Manifesto to an action. The book is only dedicated to the discovery of ‘a new politics and ’and ‘citizen life’ as well as ‘concept of ‘common interest’.
Obama has displayed his most excellent side when he wrote those remarks, ‘The gate of my heart are flung open when I find that the longer I am in politics, the less important reclame is to me .’ Because it seems that the more you are eager for power, position, and fame, the less you are with real ambition. Therefore, I only stick to be responsible for my consciousness.