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Title: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Other Available Formats:
Hardcover, 1995
Paperback, 1996

Synopsis
When Barack Obama learns of the death of his African father, whom he hardly knew, he is compelled to trace his unusual family history. Obama, who became a nationally known figure in 2004 when he gave the keynote address at the Democratic Convention, writes movingly about being raised in Hawaii by his white mother. He goes on to describe his years at Harvard (where he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review), his illuminating visit to family members in Kenya, and his work as a community activist in Chicago, where he eventually entered Illinois politics. While the book ends there, the rest is history. On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States of America.

Details
Language:        English

Size
Length:        448 Pages
Weight:        0.8 Pounds
Height:         7.8 Inches
Width:          5 Inches
Thickness:    1.3 Inches



Publisher Notes
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.



Industry Reviews
"All men live in the shadow of their fathers--the more distant the father, the deeper the shadow. Barack Obama describes his confrontation with this shadow in his provocative autobiography. DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, and he also persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither."
(08/06/1995)
"Barack Obama is never flip or hip. Fluidly, calmly, insightfully, he guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, family, class and race."
(08/20/1995)


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance and it was written by Barack Obama. This edition of Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance is in a Paperback format. This books publish date is August 2004 and it has a suggested retail price of $14.95. There are 448 pages in the book and it was published by Three Rivers Pr. The 10 digit ISBN is 1400082773 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9781400082773. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.