Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama.
2007
E185.97.O23 A3 2007
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Title
Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama.
Author
Obama, Barack.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780307383419
0307383415
0307383415
Publication Details
New York : Crown Publishers, [2007], c1995.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 442 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
E185.97.O23 A3 2007
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 odyssey₇first 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.
Note
Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. This edition appears without keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004.
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