Bibliograph

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

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Label

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

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dreams from my father

Oclc number

65399665

Responsibility statement

by Barack Obama

Series statement

Random House large print

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

Table Of Contents

Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. With new introd. and text from keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004

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