Dreams From My Father: A Story Of Race and Inheritance
by Obama, Barack
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 1400082773
- ISBN 13
- 9781400082773
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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.
Reviews
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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- Bookseller
- A2zbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1561057978
- Title
- Dreams From My Father: A Story Of Race and Inheritance
- Author
- Obama, Barack
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 6
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1400082773
- ISBN 13
- 9781400082773
- Publisher
- Three Rivers Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- BZDB42 Obama, Barack, African Americans Biography, Racially mixed people United States, Biography, Racism United States, United States Race relations Education; Biography & Autobiography. Dreams From My Father A Story Of Race and Inheritance
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