Barack Obama won the spoken-word Grammy for his best-selling audio book “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.” This is the second Grammy award for Obama, who previously received the award in 2006, for the audio book “Dreams from My Father,” a memoir he first published in 1995.

The senator was not present at the awards ceremony, as he was due to attend a rally in Virginia on the same day.

Other competitors for the award were Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, actor Alan Alda and poet Maya Angelou. Bill Clinton was in for the Grammy with his audio book “Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World,” while Jimmy Carter, another former Democratic president, was competing with his collection of lessons from the Bible, titled “Sunday Morning in Plains: Bringing Peace to a Changing World.”

Being much more than just political, Obama’s book reaches various topics, from education and health care to the war in Iraq, but it also contains personal anecdotes and fragments of the senator’s family life. The phrase in the title, “the Audacity of Hope,” comes from his 2004 Democratic Convention keynote address, which helped him stand out from his party and also become very popular. Since it went on sale on Oct. 17, the book has sold 182.000 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan.

Hillary Clinton, Obama’s rival in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, won a spoken-word Grammy award in 1997 for “It Takes a Village,” while Bill Clinton also won the same award in 2003 and 2004.