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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack ObamaISBN: 1400082773
Format: Paperback, 480pp
Pub. Date: August 2004
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
BBP Sales Rank: 1,751
List Price: $14.95
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Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama,1400082773
ANNOTATION
Obama, the son of a white American mother and a black African father, writes an
elegant and compelling biography that powerfully articulates America's racial
battleground and tells of his search for his place in black America. 8 pages of
photos.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
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.
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