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

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
Responsibility statement
Barack Obama
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader, UG, 7.1, 26.0, 113511
Sub title
a story of race and inheritance
Summary
"[I]n New York ... 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"--Container
Target audience
adult
Classification
Content

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