Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama

Random House Audio. No binding. New. Audio CD. 6 pages. Dimensions: 6.2in. x 5.5in. x 1.0in.Includes the senators speech from the 2004 Democratic National Convention! 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 fathera figure he knows more as a myth than as a manhas been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odysseyfirst to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mothers family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his fathers life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN.