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Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / 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. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father₇a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man₇has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey₇first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother₂s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father₂s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307383419
- ISBN: 0307383415
- Physical Description: xvii, 442 p. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2007], c1995.
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| General Note: | Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. This edition appears without keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004. |
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| Subject: | Obama, Barack. African Americans > Biography. Racially mixed people > United States > Biography. Racism > United States. United States > Race relations. |
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