TY  - BOOK
AU  - Obama,Barack
TI  - Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance
SN  - 1400082773
AV  - E185.97.O23 
U1  - 973.04059676250090092 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Three Rivers Press
KW  - Obama, Barack
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Biography
KW  - Racially mixed people
KW  - United States
KW  - Racism
KW  - Race relations
N1  - "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
N2  - 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; 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
ER  -