Dreams from My Father  | Subtitle : A Story of Race and Inheritance
Abstract :
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)
Registration No : B778
Author :
Barack Obama
Edition :
Impresum : New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004.
Description :
Language : English
ISBN 9781400082773
Classification:
1. 300 - SOSIO-CULTURAL COMMUNITY / 310.2 - CULTURE & INFORMATION - Information
Keyword :
1 obama
2 usa
Availability :
Hard copies 1 of 1
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