Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance

English

ISBN: 1400082773

EAN: 9781400082773

Category: Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural/Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads Of State/Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations/Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage/

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group

Release Date: 08/21/2004

Synopsis: 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 mothers family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his fathers life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.

Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.94 inches

Width: 5.19 inches

Length: 8.0 inches

Weight: 12.66 oz

Pages: 480