Since 1959, the National Academy of Recording Artists and Sciences has awarded a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album.
President Barack Obama's audiobooks have garnered two of these awards.
President Obama's audiobook, "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" won a Grammy in 2008.
The book is said to be…
"Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans..."
His autobiographical audiobook, "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" also garnered him a Grammy in 2006.
This book…
"...tells the story of Obama’s struggle to understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a black African father and white American mother—a struggle that takes him from the American heartland to the ancestral home of his great-aunt in the tiny African village of Alego."
President Obama is one of three United States Presidents to win the Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album.
President Jimmy Carter shared the honor with Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee in 2007 for his audiobook, "Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis." Davis and Dee won for the audiobook, "With Ossie & Ruby: In This Life Together."
President Bill Clinton won the Grammy in 2005 for his autobiographical audiobook, "My Life."
So far, President Barack Obama is the only United States President to have two audiobooks that have received the Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album.
If you haven't given them a listen, think about doing so.
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