Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama
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Author: Barack ObamaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-08-10
ISBN: 1400082773
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Book Reviews of Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Book Review: Intelligent and Introspective
Summary: 5 Stars
Obama's first book reads like a good novel. His soul-searching analysis of his mixed-race heritage is wrenching, reminding me of the mixed-race student in our daughter's high school who was never quite sure where she "belonged". My reason for buying this book was to better understand our new president's personality. This book accomplishes that goal. Five stars.
Summary of Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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.Pictured in lefthand photograph on cover: Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr. (President Obama's paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy). Pictured in righthand photograph on cover: Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham (President Obama's maternal grandfather and his mother as a young girl).
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