{"id":5679,"date":"2020-09-03T15:06:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T15:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=5679"},"modified":"2020-09-03T15:06:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T15:06:02","slug":"audiobook-compiles-60-minutes-interviews-with-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/audiobook-compiles-60-minutes-interviews-with-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Audiobook compiles &#8217;60 Minutes&#8217; interviews with Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5680\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5680\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5680\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AP20247432158597.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AP20247432158597.jpg 800w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AP20247432158597-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AP20247432158597-768x564.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE &#8211; In this Jan. 18, 2017 file photo, President Barack Obama smiles during his final presidential news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. More than a dozen \u201c60 Minutes\u201d interviews with Obama, beginning when he was a U.S. Senator, have been compiled into an audio release, \u201cBarack Obama: The 60 Minutes Interviews\u201d coming out Oct. 13. (AP Photo\/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 More than a dozen &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interviews with former President Barack Obama, beginning when he was a U.S. Senator, have been compiled into an audio release.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon &amp; Schuster Audio announced Thursday that &#8220;Barack Obama: The 60 Minutes Interviews&#8221; will come out Oct. 13. The audiobook features CBS News journalist Steve Kroft, who first met with Obama in January 2007 and spoke with him throughout his presidency, culminating in a discussion shortly before Obama left office in 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Over the span of just a few years, Barack Obama evolved from inexperienced freshman senator into one of the most powerful people in the world,&#8221; Kroft said in a statement. &#8220;This audiobook collection allows listeners to hear that remarkable transformation in Obama&#8217;s own voice and words, as it is unfolding.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The audiobook also includes joint interviews with Obama and his wife, Michelle, and former Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 More than a dozen &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interviews with former President Barack Obama, beginning when he was a U.S. Senator, have been compiled into an audio release. Simon &amp; Schuster Audio announced Thursday that &#8220;Barack Obama: The 60 Minutes Interviews&#8221; will come out Oct. 13. The audiobook features CBS News journalist Steve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[694,878,32,31],"class_list":["post-5679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-books","tag-associated-press","tag-barack-obama","tag-books","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}