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Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307383419 (Crown)
- ISBN: 9781400082773 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 1400082773 (trade pbk.)
- Physical Description: xvii, 453 p. ; 21 cm. : ill.
- Edition: Rev. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Three Rivers Press, c2004.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. |
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| Subject: | Obama, Barack. African Americans > Biography. Racially mixed people > United States > Biography. Racism > United States. United States > Race relations. |
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- 17 of 17 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Prince Rupert Library | B Obam (Text) | 33294001619956 | Biographies | Volume hold | Available | - |
