Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama.
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TextPublisher: New York : Three Rivers Press, c2004Edition: Rev. edDescription: xvii, 442 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 1400082773 (pbk.)Subject(s): Obama, Barack | African Americans -- Biography | Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography | Racism -- United States | United States -- Race relationsDDC classification: 973/.0405967625013/092 | B LOC classification: E185.97.O23 | A3 2004| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | B OBAM (Browse shelf) | Available | 9487 |
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| B NIXO Richard Milhous Nixon : the rise of an American politician / | B Nola Under the eye of the clock | B OAKL Binge / | B OBAM Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / | B OBAM Obama : from promise to power / | B OBAM Michelle : a biography / | B OBAM Becoming / |
Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995.
"[I]n New York ... 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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