Dreams from My Father
Wright's sermon left a great impression on Obama, who recounted Wright's sermon in detail in his memoir "Dreams from My Father". Soon after "Dreams From My Father" was published he went into politics, entering the Illinois Senate. In 2004 he was chosen to deliver the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. In Obama's 2006 memoir "The Audacity of Hope", he recollects that on being chosen to deliver this speech, he pondered the topics on which he had previously campaigned, and on major issues then affecting the nation, before thinking about the variety of people he had met while campaigning, all endeavouring in different ways to improve their own lives and to serve their country.