DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE By: Barack Obama
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.
Three Rivers Press
August 2004
480 pages ISBN: 1400082773 Trade Size Add to Wish List
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 fatherโa figure he knows more as a myth than as a manโhas been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odysseyโfirst to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his motherโs family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his fatherโs life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
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