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Dreams from my father a story of race and inheritance
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- ISBN: 9780307394125 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
- ISBN: 0307394123 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
- ISBN: 9780307394125 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
- ISBN: 0307394123 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
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xvii, 442 p. ; 21 cm. - Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, c2004.
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| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Crown Pub. Group, 2007. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1769 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 410 KB). |
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| Subject: | Obama, Barack African Americans -- Biography Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography Racism -- United States United States -- Race relations |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
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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 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.
