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Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance

Author: Barack Obama
Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, ©2004.
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
Biography
Additional Physical Format: (OCoLC)123436841
Named Person: Barack Obama
Material Type: Biography, Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Barack Obama
ISBN: 9780307394125 0307394123 9780307394125 0307394123
OCLC Number: 232687831
Description: xvii, 442 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. Subsequently published in pbk. with preface and keynote address: New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004. This edition appears without keynote address.
Responsibility: Barack Obama.

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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.

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