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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance |  | Author: Barack Obama
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Pages: 480
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1400082773
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.04960730092
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ASIN: 1400082773
Publication Date: August 10, 2004
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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.
About the Author:
BARACK OBAMA graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991, where he served as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He has worked as a community organizer, civil rights attorney, and law professor. Since 1997, he has represented parts of Chicago's South Side in the Illinois General Assembly, and he is currently the Democratic nominee to become the junior U.S. senator from Illinois. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Michelle, and daughters, Malia and Sasha.
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 Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance August 23, 2010
Bama Betty
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.
 Obama an America Hating Communist. July 29, 2010
K. Ward (Spring Tx)
4 out of 14 found this review helpful
Nice book about how Obama came to deeply Hate America and follow the path to Communism and Failure.
WE NEED A LIBRARY COLLECTION! June 29, 2010
Lawrence F. Lihosit
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 mother June 28, 2010
S. Bailey (Charlotte, NC)
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.
 Honesty of a Politician June 7, 2010
Discerning Reader
This is on the whole a very interesting book. When it was first published it was not such a big seller as it is now, as clearly people are now really curious about the background of the first black president of the USA.
In many ways President Obama's background is very appropriate to the head if the USA, which has often been called the melting-pot, into which all different cultures and nationalities come together; the result is the unique American. Perhaps more than any of the ordinary American's the President's background is very varied, both culturally and geographically. This must make it possible for him to relate to the ne3eds, the desires and aspirations of all Americans.
This is a good read because you get the feeling that he is being very honest about his life, his earlier work whereby he began to formulate his idea of change and political philosophy he adopted.
There is some imbalance in the book. There is very little about Michelle; but this may be deliberate. There is perhaphs too much detail about his relatives in Kenya. After sometime the reader gets lost in all the different names and connections. It was obviously important to the President, but perhaps a little boring for the reader.
I wanted to know a lot more about the development of his thoughts on race. When he took his white friends to a party, and politely they left early- what did he make of that? In many ways we can see he is telling us what he is thinking and experiencing, but I think we would have liked a little more about the conclusions he reached about race.
The book helps us to reflect upon and understand how the world is changing.
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