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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama (Dreams from My Father), expands on themes the senator from Illinois expressed in his electrifying keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Obama discusses the need to avoid the divisive aspect of modern politics, drawing examples from the 2004 presidential campaign and his eight years in the Illinois legislature.