Dreams From My Father CD
By (Author) Barack Obama
Text Publishing
The Text Publishing Company
25th February 2009
Australia
General
Non Fiction
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
Political leaders and leadership
973.932092
Paperback
6
Width 125mm, Height 142mm, Spine 24mm
224g
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.
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