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Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance

Title

Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama.

Author

Obama, Barack.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	IEC 10-575	Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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xvii, 457 pages; 21 cm

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.

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Biography.
Autobiographies.

Note

Originally published in slightly different form: New York : Times Books, ©1995. With new introd. and text from keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004.

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