Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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.
Formats: Audiobook, eBook, Book
Written by Barack Obama
On Sale: August 10, 2004
ISBN: 978-1-4000-8277-3
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/123909/dre...
http://www.barackobama.com/
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.
Formats: Audiobook, eBook, Book
Written by Barack Obama
On Sale: August 10, 2004
ISBN: 978-1-4000-8277-3
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/123909/dre...
http://www.barackobama.com/
It's a great story in his own words.
It gives us a keen insight into the character of the man. I felt like I was sitting in my living room listening to him think out loud.
He is a gifted writer.