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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Abridged)

by Barack Obama

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Includes the senator's speech from the 2004 Democratic National Convention!

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.

Review:

“Provocative . . . Persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither.”

New York Times Book Review

Review:

“Obama’s writing is incisive yet forgiving. This is a book worth savoring.”

Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here

From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author

Barack Obama is the junior U.S. senator from Illinois. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Michelle, and two daughters.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780739321003
Subtitle:
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Read:
Obama, Barack
Read:
Obama, Barack
Author:
Obama, Barack
Publisher:
Random House Audio
Subject:
People of Color
Subject:
Race relations
Subject:
Racism
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General
Subject:
cultural heritage
Subject:
African Americans
Subject:
Audiobooks
Abridged:
Y
Publication Date:
May 2005
Binding:
Compact Disc
Language:
English
Dimensions:
6.42x5.52x1.01 in. .41 lbs.

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