It is “a trip to a parallel America†que propose l’Obama Presidential Center, écrit The New York Times : his universe, “imbued with a sincere hope for change†, “seems out of step with the times†, so much darker and more cynical.
Almost ten years after his departure from the White House, Barack Obama’s “presidential library” will open its doors to the public on Friday, June 19, in Chicago. As he often did in his speeches, the former president wanted to give an image of a united America, far from the current climate of tensions and divisions which reigns under the administration of Donald Trump.
“The Obama Presidential Center is a world in its own right, an autonomous universe, a space that defines itself as the ‘home of hope’, where every cynical thought we bring to it is met with a history lesson and a call to action, where the former president embodies unwavering optimism, like Mickey Mouse. Then we come out, struck by how different the world seems once outside its walls… tell The Chicago Tribune.
In the United States, it is customary for presidents, after leaving office, to have a library-museum dedicated to them. Richard Nixon, for example, has his in California, George HW Bush near
