You are holding in your hands a book by Barack Obama, a man whose face is now on newspaper pages and television screens around the world. A man whom millions look to with hope these days. The person elected on November 4, 2008 as President of the United States of America. Perhaps no one will object - everything that happens in America, in one way or another, most seriously affects the life of every person on the planet. Obama has established himself as a completely new type of political leader, and thanks to his views on power, the whole world in general and Russia in particular are in for big changes. This is because Barack Obama really wants to change America. Change its economy, its foreign and domestic policies, its way of thinking, finally. And he also hopes to revive the American dream. The book "The Audacity of Hope" has been translated into all European languages, including Russian. This publication is extremely important both for the author and for Russian readers, since it is the relationship between Russia and America, their confrontation or cooperation that will determine what the world will be like in the next decade.