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Dreams from my father [electronic resource] : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama.

by Obama, Barack.

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New York : Crown Publishers, c2004.

African Americans -- Biography.

Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.

Racism -- United States.

United States -- Race relations.

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http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=C8D37486-DEB5-4C0F-963E-1CFDD429CD64 This title is available online; click here to access

9780307394125 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)

0307394123 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)

xvii, 442 p. ; 21 cm.

Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. Subsequently published in pbk. with preface and keynote address: New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004. This edition appears without keynote address.

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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