Barack Obama: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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- Materiaali: CD
- Kustantaja: Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780739321003
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Includes the senator's speech from the 2004 Democratic National Convention 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. '