description: 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.Pictured in lefthand photograph on Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr. (President Obama's paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy). Pictured in righthand photograph on Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham (President Obama's maternal grandfather and his mother as a young girl).From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Dreams from My Father
titlecomplete: Dreams from My Father
characters: Barack Obama
genres: Biography, Politics, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, History, Biography Memoir, Race, Audiobook, African American
ratings_count: 222925
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: British Book Award
category: The Best Biography, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Grammy Award
category: Best Spoken Word Album
publisher: Random House Value Publishing