Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Obama, Barack
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- ISBN 10
- 0307383415
- ISBN 13
- 9780307383419
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Synopsis
Published in 1995, 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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After reading 'The Audacity of Hope' I wanted to know more about how President Obama's background formed the upbeat, altruistic, intelligent ideas in his book.After reading 'Dreams From My Father', I ordered seven copies for family and friends. 'Dreams From My Father' shed light as to how Mr. Obama was able to formulate his humane, international, open, non-judgemental globallly informed, multi-cultural view of how best to lead America. It would be a wonderful book for American Middle and High School students to read and learn from.
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- BookCorner COM LLC (US)
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- Title
- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
- Author
- Obama, Barack
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0307383415
- ISBN 13
- 9780307383419
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2007
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- Politics, Government and Law Law Enforcement Political Biography
- Biography & Essays Biography & Memoirs Autobiography
- Countries & Cultures North America United States Americana
- History Western History United States History
- Social Sciences Cultures & Social Groups African American Studies
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