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| Genre/Form: | Autobiographies |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Barack Hussein Obama; Barack Obama; Barack Hussein Obama |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Barack Hussein Obama |
| ISBN: | 1400082773 9781400082773 |
| OCLC Number: | 494023554 |
| Description: | 1 vol. (XVII- 457 p.) ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | 1ère édition : New York : Times Books, c1995. With new introd. and text from keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004 |
| Other Titles: | 1ère édition : New York : Times Books, c1995. With new introd. and text from keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004. |
| Responsibility: | Barack Obama. |
Abstract:
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 father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
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