Dreams from my father
The son of an African father and white American mother discusses his childhood in Hawaii, his struggle to find his identity as an African American, and his life accomplishments.
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- ISBN: 9780739321003
- Physical Description 6 audio discs (7 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher New York : Random House Audio ; [2005]
- Copyright ℗2005
Content descriptions
| General Note: | In container (17 cm.). Title from container. "Abridged"--Container. Compact disc. GMD: compact disc. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by the author. |
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Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance
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Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance
Includes the senator's speech from the 2004 Democratic National Convention! 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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