02390cam a2200433 4500 62142136 TxAuBib 20080909120000.0 070328s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2006028967 9780307383419 Hardback(price $30.00) 0307383415 Hardback(price $30.00) TxAuBib Obama, Barack. Dreams From My Father : a Story of Race and Inheritance / Barack Obama. 1st ed. Crown Publishing, 2004. Includes index. Barack Obama was elected President of the United States on November 4, 2008. Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. This edition appears without 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. 20080911. Obama, Barack. Obama, Barack. Philosophy. United States. Congress. Senate Biography. Legislators United States Biography. African American legislators Biography. National characteristics, American. Ideals (Philosophy.) African Americans Biography. Racially mixed people United States Biography. Racism United States. Presidential biographies. Presidents. United States Politics and government Philosophy. United States Politics and government 2001- United States Race relations. Autobiographies.