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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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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.

Pictured in lefthand photograph on cover: Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr. (President Obama's paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy). Pictured in righthand photograph on cover: Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham (President Obama's maternal grandfather and his mother as a young girl).

 

What Customers Say About Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance:

Very poorly contextual deliverance. Not worth a dime to read at all. Very rushed book.

Wake Up, Americans. You will get it. His heart is with those who hate you and your way of life.

Do you know where his father was from. He has already started, just watch him go after your pockets, you houses, and even your air. Did you read the title of this book.

This man will brake the very backbone of America,the middle class. If you want your country to turn into another Kenya, than this man is a perfect candidate who can help you do it. He is not with you, not with America.

You want socialism. He will spread YOUR wealth the way he likes it.

Obama is wonderfully adept at articulating the impact of his experiences on his maturation and the development of his identity. This was an excellent book. Although I read it for a class, I would highly recommend it for even a good summer read. It makes me so proud that our President is such an excellent writer and such an honest human being. This is a book for absolutely everyone to read and learn from.

A rare glimpse into the emotional makeup of a president, this would be a touching read, even if the Author had decided to just become a lawyer. A candid and touching life story of our new president. Bi-racial and estranged from parents, often the minority in his own world, Obama is both belonging, and foreign. American readers of our generation will doubtless find commonality to their own childhoods, regardless how different, or what parts of the country we come from.Obama does not shy away from the harder-to-tell aspects of a history much like many other middle class kids. His is a typically American story in so many ways. Insider, outlander, just trying to do the best he can. American.

As a man whose father did not spend much time with him, I found a lot of my feelings in this book. This is one of the best books I have ever read. My paperback edition has a cover quote from Marian Wright Edelman: "Perceptive and wise, this book will tell you something about yourself whether you are black or white." How true. I don't know if a woman would find familiar ground.I found the chapters on Chicago most interesting in terms of watching his growth. This is a deep writer. His phrasing and storytelling are captivating. I also was spellbound when, later, he stood in Kenya looking at his father's and grandfather's graves (side-by-side). I am in awe of this man's journey.

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