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Genre/Form: | Biography Autobiographies Biographies |
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Named Person: | Barack Obama; Barack Obama; Barack Obama |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Barack Obama |
ISBN: | 9780307383419 0307383415 9780739328194 0739328190 |
OCLC Number: | 77522884 |
Notes: | Originally published: New York : Times Books, ©1995. With new introduction. This edition appears without the keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004. |
Description: | xvii, 442 pages ; 25 cm |
Responsibility: | by Barack Obama. |
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Abstract:
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.

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