02004cam a2200397 4500 518417238 TxAuBib 20211027120000.0 070328t20041995||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780307383419 $25.95 0307383415 $25.95 TxAuBib Obama, Barack. Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama. Story of race and inheritance, A. Story of race and inheritance. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, 2004. ©1995. xvii, 442 p. ; 25 cm. Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. This edition appears without keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004. 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. 20211027. Obama, Barack. African Americans Biography. Racially mixed people United States Biography. Racism United States. Presidential biographies. Presidents. United States Race relations. Autobiographies. Biography. Biographies. Adult nonfiction. TXTLL