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Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama.

By: Publication details: New York : Random House Large Print, [2008], c2004.Edition: Large print edDescription: xxiv, 691 p. (large print) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780739328194 (pbk. : lg. print)
  • 0739328190 (lg. print)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 328.730973 B 22
Summary: "[I]n New York ... 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"-- Container.

Originally published: 2004.

"[I]n New York ... 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"-- Container.

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