“Eager to impress” but “lacked either the aptitude or the passion”
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Former US President Barack Obama, in his newly published political memoir “A Promised Land” has included Rahul Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, according to a report in the New York Times.
According to a review of the book published in the New York Times, former US President called Manmohan Singh as “having a kind of impassive integrity,” while he described Rahul Gandhi as one who is “eager to impress” but “lacked either the aptitude or the passion” to master the subject.Rahul Gandhi has a nervous, unformed quality about him as if he were a student who’d done the coursework and was eager to impress the teacher but deep down lacked either the aptitude or the passion to master the subject,” says the review quoting Obama.
According to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie-the reviewer, quoted Obama directly from his book “A Promised Land”, which is set for release later this month and touches upon personal and political life including the eight years that he spent at the White House.
Adichie says Obama’s biographical sketches are masterful in their brevity and insight and humour.
“Secretary of Defense Bob Gates and the Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh both come across as having a kind of impassive integrity,” Obama said.
