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Dreams From My Father: A Story Of Race And Inheritance (Not Signed)

Dreams From My Father: A Story Of Race And Inheritance (Not Signed)

Dreams From My Father: A Story Of Race And Inheritance (Not Signed)

Dreams From My Father: A Story Of Race And Inheritance (Not Signed)

by Obama, Barack

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Three Rivers Pr, 2004. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7 in- 9 in Tall. Couverture souple, texte francais. État d'usage: tres bon etat. 457 pages.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).

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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. 

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On Nov 21 2011, Frodobaggins said:
After reading 'The Audacity of Hope' I wanted to know more about how President Obama's background formed the upbeat, altruistic, intelligent ideas in his book.After reading 'Dreams From My Father', I ordered seven copies for family and friends. 'Dreams From My Father' shed light as to how Mr. Obama was able to formulate his humane, international, open, non-judgemental globallly informed, multi-cultural view of how best to lead America. It would be a wonderful book for American Middle and High School students to read and learn from.

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Title
Dreams From My Father: A Story Of Race And Inheritance (Not Signed)
Author
Obama, Barack
Format/Binding
Paperback
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Used - Very Good
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ISBN 10
1400082773
ISBN 13
9781400082773
Publisher
Three Rivers Pr
Place of Publication
New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published
2004
Size
8vo - over 7 in- 9 in Tall
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