Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Google eBook)

Barack Obama

Random House Digital, Inc., Jan 9, 2007 - Biography & Autobiography - 442 pages

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).


From the Trade Paperback edition.

What people are saying

Review: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

User Review  - Andy Oram - Goodreads

What I like about this book, which suffers now from having to carry the weight of everything that has happened in Obama's three successful elections since he wrote it, is the same sense of balance and ...

Review: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

User Review  - Nancyjd - Goodreads

I read this a long time ago and loved it, but last year, I happened to listen to the audio book, which was even better. Obama won a Grammy for his recording and he did do a superb job reading his own memoir.

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 28
• Section 3: 53
• Section 4: 72
• Section 5: 92
• Section 6: 113
• Section 7: 133
• Section 8: 144
• Section 9: 164
• Section 10: 187
• Section 11: 207
• Section 12: 223
• Section 13: 249
• Section 14: 272
• Section 15: 299
• Section 16: 324
• Section 17: 346
• Section 18: 367
• Section 19: 392
• Section 20: 431

About the author

BARACK OBAMA was elected President of the United States on November 4, 2008. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
• Author: Barack Obama
• Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc., 2007
• ISBN: 0307394123, 9780307394125
• Length: 442 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies