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Dreams from My Father:
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Author/Reader: Barack Obama
Barack Obama

2005 Grammy Award winner! A compelling memoir by the first African-American President. This son of a black African father and a white American mother tells of his search, triggered by his commanding father's death, for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. Includes his celebrated keynote address from the 2004 Democratic Convention. "Poignant, probing memoir... a resonant book."—Publishers Weekly » Read More

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Publish Date: 05/10/2005
ISBN: 9780739321003

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When Barack Obama learns of the death of his African father, whom he hardly knew, he is compelled to trace his unusual family history. Obama, who became a nationally known figure in 2004 when he gave the keynote address at the Democratic Convention, writes movingly about being raised in Hawaii by his white mother. He goes on to describe his years at Harvard (where he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review), his illuminating visit to family members in Kenya, and his work as a community activist in Chicago, where he eventually entered Illinois politics. While the book ends there, the rest is history. On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States of America.

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"All men live in the shadow of their fathers--the more distant the father, the deeper the shadow. Barack Obama describes his confrontation with this shadow in his provocative autobiography. DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, and he also persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither."

New York Times Book Review - Paul Watkins (08/06/1995)

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