Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance

Summary: 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 odyssey₇first 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.

Item details

ISBN: 9780307383419
ISBN: 0307383415
Physical Description: print
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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