Recently The New York Times reviewed Former US President Barack Obama’s newly published political memior “A Promised Land”, in which he talked about the issues and political leaders from around the world.
On Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the New York Times article read: “Secretary of Defense Bob Gates and the Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh both come across as having a kind of impassive integrity”.
“Rahul Gandhi has ‘a nervous, unformed quality about him, as if he were a student who’d done the coursework and was eager to impress the teacher but deep down lacked either the aptitude or the passion to master the subject’,” reported New York Times, quoting from the book.
“Joe Biden is a decent, honest, loyal man who Obama senses ‘might get prickly if he thought he wasn’t given his due – a quality that might flare up when dealing with a much younger boss’,” the NYT Article read.
“Vladimir Putin reminds him of the tough, street-smart ward bosses who used to run the Chicago machine. Also on Putin: “Physically, he was unremarkable’,” the NYT article read.
About Hu Jintao, who was the President of China from 2003 to 2013, the NYT article read: “In a private meeting, Hu Jintao reads from stacks of prepared papers, so monotonous that Obama considers suggesting ‘that we could save each other time by just exchanging papers and reading them at our leisure’.”
“The Promised Land” is the first of a two-part memoir written by the 59-year-old former US President. The New York times Reviewed it “And then there are his biographical sketches, masterful in their brevity and insight and humor,”.
