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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Hardcover - 2007
by Barack Obama
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, Illinois U.S. Senator Barack Obama, the son of a black African father and a white American mother, recounts his search for a workable meaning to his life as a black American.
About this book
Published in 1995, this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
Summary
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Pictured in lefthand photograph on cover: Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr. (President Obama's paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy). Pictured in righthand photograph on cover: Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham (President Obama's maternal grandfather and his mother as a young girl).From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Title Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
- Author Barack Obama
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY), New York
- Date 2007-01-09
- Features Dust Cover, Price on Product - Canadian
- ISBN 9780307383419 / 0307383415
- Weight 1.58 lbs (0.72 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.5 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 3.81 cm)
- Reading level 1010
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Obama, Barack
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004012412
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Media reviews
Citations
- Chronicle of Higher Education, 09/19/2008, Page 17
- Ebony, 02/01/2013, Page 73
- Essence, 01/01/2009, Page 73
- Publishers Weekly Best Books, 03/23/2009, Page 22
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