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Dreams from my father [book club] : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama.

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: 1st pbk. edDescription: xvii, 457 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781400082773
  • 1400082773
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 973/.0405967625009/0092 B 22
LOC classification:
  • E185.97.O23  A3 2004
Online resources: 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.
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Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. With new introd. and text from keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004.

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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