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Dreams from my father :

Author (نویسنده/ناشر):

Obama, Barack.

Catalog Source (منبع کتلاگ):

ACKU

Statement of responsibility:

Barak Obama.

Publication/Distribution (Imprint):

Edinburgh ; London ; New York : Canongate, 2008.

Physical Description:

xvii, 442 pages ; 18 cm.

Language:

English

ISBN:

9781847673510

Subjects--Personal Names:

,Obama, Barack, 1961-.

Subjects--Topical Terms:

Race relations.
African Americans.
Racially mixed people.
Racism – United States.
African Americans – Biography.
Racially mixed people – United States – Biography.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:

,United States – Race relations.

LC Class. No:

E185.97. / O23. / O333 2008

Source of Classification:

Library of Congress Classification / Monograph

Accession No:

3ACKU000531482

General Note:

Abstract: 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.

General Note:

This edition appears without the keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004.