Philippe Labro – “Obama, what a man! “

 

Tuesday evening, François Busnel left his Large Bookstore to engage in a unique exercise: the interview with Barack Obama. Audience success (a peak of 6.5 million viewers), this interview “propels a little more” the journalist “in the high French cultural and audiovisual spheres,” said Philippe Labro. But the writer has returned to the memories of Barack Obama, the pretext for this interview, and to its rich content of more than 800 pages.

Philippe Labro judges that A promised land, the first volume of Obama’s memoirs, is “a real book, well written, clear, precise, anecdotal, which tells and describes”. Account of political meetings, anecdotes, description of foreign counterparts: the former journalist in the United States did not shy away from his pleasure. All this noted by a few formulas. “I spent my time noting them”, jokes Philippe Labro, before quoting an exchange between Robert Gates and Barack Obama.

“I am quite impressed”, adds Philippe Labro, because Barack Obama “embodied America in a remarkable way”. “He continues to embody and, with all impatience, I await volume 2 of these memories”, he concludes.

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