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Barack Obama - Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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When Barack Obama learns of the death of his African father, whom he hardly knew, he is compelled to trace his unusual family history. Obama, who became a nationally known figure in 2004 when he gave the keynote address at the Democratic Convention, writes movingly about being raised in Hawaii by his white mother. He goes on to describe his years at Harvard (where he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review), his illuminating visit to family members in Kenya, and his work as a community activist in Chicago, where he eventually entered Illinois politics. While the book ends there, the rest is history. On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States of America.
 
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Barack Obama's Search for Identity

Date of Review:  Apr 22, 2007
The Bottom Line: This is a very good book about Barack Obama and his interesting childhood and young adulthood.
Review: Growing up in a bi- racial household would certainly have its share of ups and downs and it often leaves children and other family members torn in different directions, especially if the marriage doesn t work out. This social setting not uncommon in...
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Recommended to buy: Yes

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Perceptive; Thoughtful; Full of wisdom
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Some parts drag and are too detailed
 

"Between my black and white worlds"

Date of Review:  Apr 27, 2008
The Bottom Line: Barack Obama's career is now far beyond 1995 when DREAMS FROM MY FATHER APPEARED. Yet he is the same man: brooding, introverted, articulate, idealistic, hopeful. The book unlocks the candidate.
Review: On August 4, 2008 Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. will be 47 years old. As of the spring of 2008, the junior U. S. Senator from Illinois leads Senator Hillary Clinton in the competition to be Democratic Party candidate for President.

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Barack Obama's life to age 26 helps...
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Obama arbitrariy plays down his white...
 

You! Who? Barack 's Story

Date of Review:  Oct 15, 2008
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the book, it was good.

Review: I have an excessive appetite for knowing more about whom our presidential candidates really are, and I thought how better to find out then to read his book. Just like everybody else who holds an idea in their mind about the world in which we now...
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Authors Barack Obama
Nonfiction Category Biography & Autobiography • Social Science
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  New York Times Book Review: "All men live in the shadow of their fathers--the more distant the father, the deeper the shadow. Barack Obama describes his confrontation with this shadow in his provocative autobiography. DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, and he also persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Three Rivers Pr (August 31, 2004)
Measurements: 7.75"(h) x 5"(w) x 1.25"(d), 0.75 lbs.
ISBN: 9781400082773
 
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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.
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