Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
Large Print Book
Large print.
"[I]n New York ... 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"--Container.
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Barcode | Status / Due Date |
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| Caledonia Library Association | 973.04 OBA (Text) Adult Nonfiction |
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Record details
- ISBN: 9780739325766 (lg. print : hc)
- ISBN: 0739325760 (lg. print : hardcover)
- Physical Description: xxiv, 691 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
- Edition: Large print.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, c2004.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: 1995. |
| Summary, etc.: | "[I]n New York ... 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"--Container. |
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| Subject: | Obama, Barack. African Americans > Biography. Racially mixed people > United States > Biography. Racism > United States. United States > Race relations. |
| Genre: | Large type books. |