Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Obama, Barack
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1400082773
- ISBN 13
- 9781400082773
- Seller
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Olympia, Washington, United States
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About This Item
The 2004 updated edition of this book by the former president of the United States. The book shows very little wear, other than tiny little tears (2-3 mm) at three of the corners of the spine. The spine itself is square and uncreased and the pages are clean, tight and unmarked.
Synopsis
Published in 1995, 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.
Reviews
After reading 'The Audacity of Hope' I wanted to know more about how President Obama's background formed the upbeat, altruistic, intelligent ideas in his book.After reading 'Dreams From My Father', I ordered seven copies for family and friends. 'Dreams From My Father' shed light as to how Mr. Obama was able to formulate his humane, international, open, non-judgemental globallly informed, multi-cultural view of how best to lead America. It would be a wonderful book for American Middle and High School students to read and learn from.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Turtleman Used Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ST05166
- Title
- Dreams from My Father
- Author
- Obama, Barack
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2004 edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1400082773
- ISBN 13
- 9781400082773
- Publisher
- Three Rivers Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004~
- Pages
- xvii, 457
- Size
- 13 cm x 20 cm x 2.5 cm
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; memoir;
Terms of Sale
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Turtleman Used Books
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