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Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

by Barack Obama
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Candid journey exploring personal and racial identity.

If you're interested in the complexities of heritage and the search for identity, "Dreams From My Father" could resonate deeply with you. Obama’s eloquent storytelling offers a raw and reflective exploration of his early life, with insights that go far beyond politics. Reading this book feels like navigating the intricate webs of family and society alongside Obama, making it a deeply personal narrative that might inspire you to consider your own roots and tales.

  • British Book Award for The Best Biography (2009)
  • Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (2006)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

by Barack Obama
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ISBN: 9781782119258
Authors: Barack Obama
Publisher: Canongate Canons
Date of Publication: 2016-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Biographies & Memoirs, Politics
Related Topics: Politics, Biography Memoir, Memoir, Autobiography, Biography, Politics, History, Biography Memoir, Memoir, Autobiography, Biography
Goodreads rating: 3.93
(rated by 224571 readers)

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.
 

Candid journey exploring personal and racial identity.

If you're interested in the complexities of heritage and the search for identity, "Dreams From My Father" could resonate deeply with you. Obama’s eloquent storytelling offers a raw and reflective exploration of his early life, with insights that go far beyond politics. Reading this book feels like navigating the intricate webs of family and society alongside Obama, making it a deeply personal narrative that might inspire you to consider your own roots and tales.

  • British Book Award for The Best Biography (2009)
  • Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (2006)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.