Sales top 3 million for Barack Obamaโs โA Promised Landโ
FILE - This Feb. 19, 2019, file photo shows former President Barack Obama speaking at the My Brother's Keeper Alliance Summit in Oakland, Calif. Obamas A Promised Land sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours, putting it on track to be the best selling presidential memoir in modern history. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)NEW YORK โ Just a month after publication, Barack Obamaโs โA Promised Landโ is well on its way to becoming the best-selling presidential memoir in modern times. Crown announced Wednesday that sales have topped 3.3 million copies in the U.S. and Canada, within range of Bill Clintonโs โMy Lifeโ and George W. Bushโs โDecision Points,โ both of which have sold between 3.5 million and 4 million. โA Promised Land,โ the first of two planned volumes, covers Obamaโs election in 2008 and much of his first term. READ: Obama memoir sells a record 1.7 million copies in first week