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Share Your Hopes & Dreams With President Obama

OK, so the election is still six days away, but that’s not stopping Skyhorse Publishing from announcing its plans to release Letters to President Obama: Americans Share Our Hopes and Dreams with the First African-American President. Readers are encouraged to submit their own “words, thoughts, perspectives, and dreams in a letter for this new era.” The book aims to capture the country’s hope and optimism during this time of change and progression, memorializing how we, as a nation, come together at a pivotal moment in American history.

The editors of Letters to President Obama are professors at the University of Michigan and Cornell. Associate publisher Bill Wolfsthal said they will edit the submissions “to create a thought-provoking and poignant collection”, thereby ensuring the book’s place as an important literary and historical document — and not a platform for right-wing nutjobs.

But what if Obama doesn’t win on November 4? “We’ll deal with that if it happens,” Wolfsthal said. “The book might still be a poignant piece of history if Obama should lose.”

Letters to President Obama is scheduled to be released in April 2009.

To submit your own letter, visit the book’s website.

Story Source Publishers Weekly, Letters to President Obama | Image Source Obey Giant

October 29, 2008 | Filed Under Newsies, Politics

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