Dreams From My Father: A Story Of Race And Inheritance

Lyrical and Poetic

4 weeks ago

Wise and profound, Dreams from my Father is Barack Obama’s 1995 memoir detailing his journey to understand his place as a man of mixed race and the place of the black race, in America. Born to a Kenyan father and white mother and raised by his grandparents in Hawaii, Obama led an adventurous life, later moving with his mother to Indonesia when she remarried. After attending Occidental University in Los Angeles and then transferring to Columbia in New York, he finally ended up in Chicago… + read more

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Inspirational and Real

4 months ago

I was a bit hesitant to pick this book up, because I was concerned that it may be simply a book written by his PR agent, but it wasn't. It goes through the struggles that Obama had trying to live between the chasm of two worlds, being of mixed race. I think anyone who has felt like they were part of two worlds, yet part of neither and anyone who has grown up in unusual circumstances, will get something out of this book. Obama deals with the paradoxes of his life in a very smart and human… + read more

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The Story Behind the Man

7 months ago

This book was written before Obama had aspirations of becoming President. It gives great insight into the life that made Obama the man he is today and why he has the ideas he does about which direction to take the country in and why he may be one of the best presidents the United states has ever had.

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DREAMS FROM MY FATHER

9 months ago

I read this book shortly after I saw an appearance by Barack Obama on public television. At the same time, I also purchased "The Audacity of Hope", his second book. Since the first book discussed Obama's early life, I decided that it was the first one to be read. This book provides numerous glimpses into a life and a family that was not, by any means, one which could be called normal. Perhaps it was this that gave Obama an edge, and a different perspective on life and government than most… + read more

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I highly recommend this book.

9 months ago

The story of what made the current president of the United States, Barack Obama, the man he is today. A good read even for those who are not usually into politics.

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