Dreams from my father
Subtitle: a story of race and inheritance
By: Barack Obama.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers; Crown Publishing Group, The
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780307383419
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Obama, Barack; African Americans -- Biography; Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography; Racism -- United States; United States -- Race relations
Genres: Biography
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.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. This edition appears without keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004.