TY - BOOK AU - Obama,Barack TI - Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance SN - 1400082773 (trade pbk.) AV - 002 E 185.97 O12d 2004 U1 - 973/.0405967625013/092 PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - Three Rivers Press KW - Obama, Barack. KW - African Americans KW - Biography KW - Racially mixed people KW - United States KW - Racism KW - Race relations N1 - Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. With new introd. and text from keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004 N2 - 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 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/2004012412.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random051/2004012412.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random051/2004012412.html ER -