| | |  | Art & Architecture | Home » » Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance | | | | | | | Description: | | 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). | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9781400082773
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Barack Obama | | Paperback:
| 480 pages | | Publisher:
| Three Rivers Press | | Publication Date:
| August 10, 2004 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1400082773 | | Package Length:
| 8.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.75 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 589 reviews |
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 Fantastic couragous look at where we come from, foundation of where we can goSep 05, 2010
Obama courageously tells of his tracing of his family history, sharing with us insights into race, Africa, family bonds across cultures. This book ranks for me with Mandela, Gandhi and Martin Luther King in its strong and honest look at one's self. Few share the facing of challenges with family, modern life, and coming to terms with contribution in such a profound and honest way.
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and InheritanceAug 23, 2010
I foun this book to be an extremely open and honest literary memoir that fused thoughs, ideologies, philosophy and the absurdities of life in a format that flowed as a result of his literary style, one that is eloquently descriptive and touched this reader on a very deep level. This book has been a spiritual awakening of the providence of God. I believe the young Harvard Law Review President broke the glass ceiling in that exclusive domain in order to break the ultimate ceiling of an exclusive white male dominated society of U.S. Presidents. Personally, I could see throughout this writing, God's gentle guiding, I feel his selfless work as a Community Organizer in Chicago got him ready for the battles he would face as a Senator and on a larger scale as President of the U.S. I believe that like Dr. King, President Obama has also followed the teachings of Ghandi in not responding to naysayers and all the negative press. He is criticized by liberals who I believed supported him for his race rather than his intellect and found that his intellect was more than they bargained for and his race cannot be put in a neat package - he was sired by a pure blooded African and raised by a white mother and her white parents, only really meeting his father once at a young age, I believe 10, and his African relatives as an adult. I believe Barack H. Obama used his intellect and tenacity and brush with poverty to help turn around a nation facing more problems when he took office than any President since Lincoln. I thank God Barack Obama wrote eloquently and shared a himself with the world through the book I just read: Dreams From My Father. All of us dream, but people with purpose who are willing to work hard learn to differentiate dreams from reality. I think the writer, Barack Obama knew that journey is a quest that we spend the whole of our life sorting as we continue attempting to separate dreams from reality.
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 Obama an America Hating Communist.Jul 29, 2010
Nice book about how Obama came to deeply Hate America and follow the path to Communism and Failure.
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WE NEED A LIBRARY COLLECTION!Jun 29, 2010
Dear Mr. President:
As a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Honduras, 1975-1977), I request your help to create a new Special Collection at the Library of Congress, the Peace Corps Experience Collection. This would include published memoirs, letters, essays, novels, short stories and poetry inspired by service. By creating such a repository, the Library of Congress would become a historical guardian for the Peace Corps' collective memory and promote understanding (the Peace Corps' third goal).
Currently, there is no such treasure. The Kennedy Library only accepts original material. Tragically, even the Peace Corps Resource Library in Washington D.C. does not keep published work written by its own volunteers, the salt of the earth. As the fiftieth anniversary of the Peace Corps' inception approaches, let us correct this.
As you know, hundreds of thousands of Americans have heard the call and hundreds have returned to fulfill that pledge to share their experience through literature. Since commercial publishers have historically shown little interest in Peace Corps Volunteer's literature, ninety percent of these books are self-published. The Library of Congress currently will not accept any book unless at least 500 copies were printed. In today's Print-On-Demand publishing world, this excludes almost all Peace Corps' books.
Popular government sponsored programs are rare. During the first half of the twentieth century only the W.P.A. and the C.C.C. caught America's imagination. During the second half of the twentieth century, only N.A.S.A. and the Peace Corps have been equally popular. Yet, like the W.P.A. and the C.C.C., first-hand experience books about the Peace Corps are hard to find and our collective memory fades.
The Library of Congress has a great set of special collections, several of which include twentieth century work. There is even a collection of "Amateur Publications" by early twentieth century journalists! The addition Peace Corps literature will serve our nation well at no cost to the tax payer. The books will be donated. Web sites related to the Peace Corps are numerous.
Most wise leaders are remembered for supporting the arts and learning. This is an opportunity for President Obama. The fiftieth anniversary is the perfect time to announce the creation of a Peace Corps Experience Collection within the Library of Congress. Thanking you in advance for your kind consideration,
Gift for my motherJun 28, 2010
My mother really enjoyed reading this book. She was born in the South during the depression. President Obama is her hero. It was a treat to read about his life.
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