Textbook Discounter: Social Sciences: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
	Author: Barack Obama Publisher: Three Rivers Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$14.95~~ Buy New: $7.41 You Save: $7.54 (50%) New (76) Used (48) Collectible (4) from $7.23 Rating: 323 reviews Sales Rank: 11 Media: Paperback Pages: 480 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5 Dimensions (in): 8 x 4.5 x 0.8 ISBN: 1400082773 Dewey Decimal Number: 973.04960730092 EAN: 9781400082773 ASIN: 1400082773 Publication Date: August 10, 2004 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days


Editorial Reviews: Product Description 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.