Dreams from my father
Subtitle: a story of race and inheritance
By: Barack Obama
Publisher: Canongate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9781847673510
Subjects: Racially mixed people; Race relations; African Americans; Racism; 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: This edition appears without the keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004.