Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0307383415
- ISBN: 9780307383419
- ISBN: 9781400082773
- ISBN: 1400082773
- Physical Description: xvii, 442 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2007]
- Copyright: ©2004
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. With new introd. This edition appears without the keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004. |
| Target Audience Note: | 1010L Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.1 26 113511. |
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| Subject: | Obama, Barack. African Americans > Biography. Multiracial people > United States > Biography Racism > United States. Racism. United States > Race relations. |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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- 84 of 85 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Bladen County Library.
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- 0 current holds with 85 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bladen Main Branch | B OBAMA (Text) | 30441100501964 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
