--- product_id: 49119949 title: "Obama: An Intimate Portrait" brand: "pete souzabarack obama" price: "R1257" currency: ZAR in_stock: true reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/49119949-obama-an-intimate-portrait store_origin: ZA region: South Africa --- # Obama: An Intimate Portrait **Brand:** pete souzabarack obama **Price:** R1257 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Obama: An Intimate Portrait by pete souzabarack obama - **How much does it cost?** R1257 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.za](https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/49119949-obama-an-intimate-portrait) ## Best For - pete souzabarack obama enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted pete souzabarack obama brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Obama: An Intimate Portrait - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91+JOPFsZYL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Love it! Also added Becoming review! (Since I can't add my review ) *by L***Y on Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2018* She let us in. Decade by decade, she lays it out. She’s just like all of us. You will get to know her better than you know even your closest friends. It’s captivating and enlightening. Her childhood in Chicago and young adult life at Princeton and Harvard were filled with family, friendship, loss, love, community, dignity, ambition, laughter, and great memories for us all to enjoy. She painted the pictures so well. I loved her stories about Barack Obama and her mother. I learned quite a bit about POTUS. What a well-written, first-class memoir!Going doing in history as the best FLOTUS ever, mainly because she had a full 8 years to engineer so many initiatives and touch so many lives and also because she is still young and motivated. She has many more years of impact, including her initiatives—Let’s Move!, Reach Higher, Let Girls Learn, and Joining Forces. The day she and President Obama left the White House, forty-five million kids were eating healthier breakfasts and lunches; eleven million students were getting sixty minutes of physical activity every day through our Let’s Move! Active Schools program. Through Joining Forces, they’d helped persuade businesses to hire or train more than 1.5 million veterans and military spouses. On education, she and Barack had leveraged billions of dollars to help girls around the world get the schooling they deserve. More than twenty-eight hundred Peace Corps volunteers were now trained to implement programs for girls internationally. And in the United States, she had helped more young people sign up for federal student aid, supported school counselors, and elevated College Signing Day to a national level.All this and they managed two terms in office without a major scandal. They held themselves and the people who worked with them to the highest standards of ethics and decency.I must add that I was a tad set back regarding her comments regarding her speech stating ‘she was proud of her country for the first time as an adult’ and of comments about Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Obama seems to not take accountability for this statement, seemingly backpedaling and blaming the media. I was hoping she would own up to it. When your great-grandparents come to America greeted with ease, new opportunities and wealth creation, you are very proud of America. However, when your great-grandparents come to America greeted with chattel slavery, family separation, and murder, well, the proudness is a "stretch goal". This should be understandable for all those who know true American history. It adds context of the shameful history of black people in this country. Juxtapose this with the Rev. Wright headlines and it's like crying foul on one move and chastising someone else (Rev. Wright) for a similar move. She wrote that, “Barack and I were dismayed to see this, a reflection of the worst and most paranoid parts of the man who’d married us…”. Obama's extreme judgment on Rev Wright's "spitfire" preaching, and "narrow-mindedness" seamed very dismissive. She recognizes that this is the mindset of those who'd come of age in a time of segregation, yet used language such as "absurd" and vitriol" to him. When her senior thesis was discovered as to be a black power manifesto, however, she called it "small-minded" and "ludicrous" of the media. She said she was young and naïve. They listened to scores of his sermons throughout the 1990s, yet it's not until 2008 that they are appalled. They distanced themselves for political reasons in 2008 from the man and continue the same narrative and direction. This was, as I believe, to pave the path for their standards of decency. I concluded that her perspective has evolved at a level that none of us will fully understand. She’s sat in kitchens of Iowans, had adorable conversations with the Queen of England and has heard stories of tens of thousands of everyday people. I put this all in perspective...no doubt, and love her like a big sister nonetheless.Her experiences at 54 are incredibly rich, like none other, and we should all be wholly inspired by this memoir. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent portrayal of Mr. Obama, his family and his work through his years in office *by W***L on Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2018* I bought this for my wife for our anniversary and she absolutely loved it. It is a beautiful compilation of moments in time from the presidential years of Mr. Obama captured in the excellent photographic work of Mr. Souza. There are pictures capturing the pressures of the presidential office as well as intimate moments between Mr. Obama and Mrs. Obama, their children, the officials with whom he served and the citizens he served. Some of them are engaging, some are amusing and some are quite moving. It is already one of her most cherished keepsakes and yes - although we have dozens of bookcases all through our house stuffed to the gills with many valuables books, first editions and even signed editions - this one sits on our living room coffee table and I'm certain will remain there for many years to come. I would also like to mention that we're both senior citizens and we're both caucasian and we both live in the midwest...but we also both still do our own thinking and have managed to retain our hearts and our humanity. Thank you, Mr. Souza, for a wonderful work.BTW - As I write this there are 25 one star reviews of this book. Only five of those are reviews based on verified purchases. Of those, three were because the book they received was damaged and two were because the buyer thought they were buying the Kindle version rather than the hardcover version. The other twenty one star reviews are by people who have not actually bought the book, have probably never seen the book, and consist of nothing more than political rants. The Amazon review feature is not a political forum and people who elect to use it as such are abusing a very valuable asset Amazon offers to its customers. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Obama An Intimate Portrait book *by S***S on Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2024* Great photos --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/49119949-obama-an-intimate-portrait](https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/49119949-obama-an-intimate-portrait) --- *Product available on Desertcart South Africa* *Store origin: ZA* *Last updated: 2026-05-16*