The Audacity of HopeTHE #I NATIONAL BESTSELLER AS RECORDED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES. .. THE LOS ANGELES TIMES THE WASHINGTON POST. THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his