- Racially mixed people, Racism, United states, race relations, African americans, biography
Dreams from My Father is Barack Obama's remarkable memoir. The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father's life and reconcile his divided inheritance. Written at the age of thirty-three, long before Obama had thoughts of a political career, Dreams from My Father is an unforgettable read. It illuminates not only Obama's journey, but also our universal desire to understand our history, and what makes us the people we are.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and contemplative.
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- Author
- Barack Obama
- First published
- April 4, 2006
- Pages
- 442
- Publisher
- [Seuil], Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage Español
- Editions
- 54
- Language
- Korean, Portuguese, per, Japanese
- ISBN
- 9789571349268
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“A few months after my twenty-first birthday, a stranger called to give me the news.”
Barack Hussein Obama II was the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He was the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois from January 2005 until his election to the presidency in November 2008.
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