FACTS ABOUT A DEFINING MOMENT
A Defining Moment is a 184 page hard-cover, coffee table pictorial/historical with over 300 color of never-before-seen photographs and speeches that chronicles candidate junior United State Senator Barack Obama’s historic journey from a rising star in the Democratic Party to the nation’s first African American president.
A Defining Moment is the brainchild of photojournalist and author Patricia Duncan and was written in collaboration with award-winning journalists and photographers; her first published book.
A Defining Moment contains 10 milestone speeches (complete text) delivered by candidate Obama during his journey to the presidency that includes his presidential candidacy announcement, The Race Speech, A World Stands as
One Speech in Berlin, the Democratic Party Nomination Acceptance Speech,
the Victory Speech and the Presidential Inaugural Speech and others.
A Defining Moment also includes speeches delivered by prominent Democratic Party luminaries including: the Senator Edward Kennedy, DNC Chairman Howard Dean, Congressman John Lewis, Senator Hillary Clinton, former President Bill Clinton, Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden, Michelle Obama, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Martin Luther King III.
A Defining Moment incorporates a national map detailing state-by-state results
of the 2008 Presidential election as well as terms and definitions describing the Electoral College process.
A Defining Moment contains speeches rivaling other defining moment speeches delivered by other American presidents’ such as Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and others.
A Defining Moment documents through poetry and prose a social revolution of change as our nation endured fiscal chaos and relative uncertainty; and how millions of citizens moved beyond their personal and political barriers seek out
real change.
