An Obama Speechwriter Looks Back At The Last Eight Years, And Helps Prepare For The Next Four, Through The Lens Of Books

“It became more real: This good man was in fact going to be our president. He was going to call other presidents and be in charge. So if you ask me what I remember most from that day? The sunlight; my wife’s small brown hand in my own; the feeling that from this moment, our history could be amended, our Union made more perfect, our lives more free.

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Now we are here.”