TY - BOOK AU - Obama,Barack TI - Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance SN - 9781847673510 AV - E185.97.O23 A3 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Canongate KW - Obama, Barack. KW - Obama, Barack, KW - African Americans KW - Biography KW - Racially mixed people KW - United States KW - Racism KW - fast KW - Race relations KW - Autobiographie KW - swd N1 - This edition appears without the keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004; 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 ER -