Dreams from my father a story of race and inheritance Barack Obama

By:

Obama, Barack, 1961- [aut]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York Three Rivers Press c2004Edition: Rev. edDescription: xvii, 457 p 21 cmContent type:

Text

Media type:

ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen

Carrier type:

Band

ISBN:

1400082773
9781400082773

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

973.04059676250090092
973/.04960730092 B 23

LOC classification:

E185.97.O23

Other classification:

MG 70040
MS 3450

Summary: 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 inheritanceSummary: 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

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
single unit book	HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 2nd floor – Closed Collection	E (Executive)	E:E185.97.O23 A3 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		2023-1233

"Featuring an excerpt from Senator Obama's new book The audacity of hope" [first published 2006]--Cover

Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. With new introd. and text from keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004

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

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Dreams from my father a story of race and inheritance Barack Obama