Bibliograph

Dreams from my father, a story of race and inheritance, Barack Obama

Type

Label

Dreams from my father, a story of race and inheritance, Barack Obama

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dreams from my father

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

232687831

Responsibility statement

Barack Obama

Sub title

a story of race and inheritance

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. Subsequently published in pbk. with preface and keynote address: New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004. This edition appears without keynote address

Target audience

adultadolescent

Classification

Contributor