Former US President Barack Obama has had reserved the place in his new memoir for some of the global political leaders and shared his thoughts about them, for the first time since leaving the office. The first African American President had mentioned about Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his new memoir, 'A Promised Land'. 

'A Promised Land' would be the first memoir of Obama since he left the office of the President of the United States and it will be out by next week. The 768-page memoir will be released on November 17 and it revolves around Obama's childhood and political rise, his historic 2008 campaign, and his first four years in the White House. Days before the release, the New York Times had reviewed his memoir and shared some of the excerpts from the book and about the mention of some of the global leaders. 

The book was reviewed by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and according to the review, Barack Obama has noted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to have a nervous, uninformed quality like a student eager to impress the teacher but lacking aptitude or passion to master the subject. The former US President said that Rahul Gandhi is as if he were a student who had done the coursework but he lacks aptitude and the passion to master the subject. 

Obama's mention of the Indian leaders becomes crucial to how he had seen them from his perspective and while Rahul Gandhi lacks the aptitude from Obama's point of view, the former's mother and Congress President Sonia Gandhi also had a mention in his memoir, according to the review. The reviewer has written that "We are told of the handsomeness of men like Charlie Crist and Rahm Emanuel, but not the beauty of women, except for one or two instances, as in the case of Sonia Gandhi". 

Besides the Gandhis, the pre-release review reveals how the former President compared one of his former cabinet secretaries to former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The review states that Former US Defence Secretary Bob Gates and Manmohan Singh both had come across as having a kind of impassive integrity. 

Mentioning about his former Vice President and current President-elect Joe Biden, Obama said that Biden might get prickly if he thought he wasn't given his due - a quality that might flare up when dealing with a much younger boss. Speaking about his Russian counterpart, who stills holds the presidency, Vladimir Putin, Obama said that Putin was physically unremarkable. 

The review has come at a high time when Congress had faced a debacle in the Bihar assembly polls. The memoir will be released days after Obama's former Vice-President Joe Biden has been elected as the next US President. Biden has defeated Republican incumbent Donald Trump and the President-elect has been building his administration.  

Obama's book will be released in two volumes by the Penguin Random House and the first volume - covering his childhood till his first term in the office will be released on November 17 while the second volume revolves around his second term in the White House. The first volume will be released in 25 languages simultaneously. Barack Obama was the 44th US President and served from 2008 to 2016. He was the first African American to hold the nation's highest office.