Dreams from my father - Barack Obama

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Title
Dreams from my father - a story of race and inheritance
Author
Barack Obama
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Canongate Books
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20080605
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Barack Obama was born in Honolulu in 1961. In his early twenties he found his vocation working among poor communities on the south side of Chicago. Later he went to law school at Harvard University, where he became the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. In 1995 he published his memoir Dreams from My Father, which became a bestseller soon after it was reissued in 2004. After returning to Chicago, he was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996.

Barack Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and later that year he was elected to the US Senate. His second book, The Audacity of Hope, was published in 2006 and became an immediate bestseller. In November 2008 Senator Obama beat John McCain to become the 44th President of the United States of America. He is married to Michelle, with whom he has two daughters, Sasha and Malia.

This may be the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician.
Time - Joe Klein

A remarkable story, beautifully told.
Observer - Robert McCrum

Whatever else people expect from a politician, it's not usually a beautifully written personal memoir steeped in honesty. Barack Obama has produced one.
The Times - Oona King

Obama's writing is characterised throughout by a graceful eloquence, a generosity of perception and spirit rare in young men of many gifts and charisma...here is a testimony for the ages.
Independent - Candace Allen

It is an almost illicit pleasure to be reading the unspun memories of a man who may yet become president of the US.
Guardian

This book is simply justified, whatever its long-term political significance may or may not be, as a rich and rewarding read
Herald

...it is a well-written account of Obama's struggle to establish his own views on identity and race, and all the more entertaining for its honesty.
Financial Times - Elaine Moore

[Obama] writes with candour about racism, bigotry and hardship, but always there is a sense of wisdom - you feel you are in the presence of a very mature man . . . You will not fail to be moved by Obama's warmth and humility.
Good Book Guide

With its honesty and cool language, and by virtue of having a story worth telling, the book impresses far more than the typical political memoir.
Sunday Herald - Colin Waters

Obama has written a memoir . . . that evokes the anguish of miscegenation yet culminates in a cry of faith in human community . . . Obama is a born narrator, with a mastery of colour, scene and personality, deftly stirring them into the melting pot of a shared American identity. Rarely has that identity found so vivid a portraitist.
Sunday Times - Simon Jenkins

Because he held to the good and transcended the bad, in Obama's genesis millions of us will find hope . . . his search to know and forgive his absent Kenyan father holds lessons for us all. Especially in relative terms, his clear prose is refreshing.
The Times - Ross Leckie

Worthy of attention in its own right . . . his prose is both vivid and engrossing.
New Nation

The only politician's life I have read that made me cry . . . elegant and surprising prose as well as a solid personal statement.
The Times - Ian Kelly

It's touching, revealing, brave and generous . . . unprecedentedly well written for any politician.
Evening Standard

Obama is a subtle writer, with an extraordinary breadth of vision.
Sunday Herald - Margaret Elphinstone

This memoir displays great intelligence and humility . . . and proves a rewarding read.
Beyond

The book that revealed Barack Obama as not just an ambitious politician but also as an eloquent writer and deep thinker.
The Times - Erica Wagner

A touchstone for future politicians.
Daily Telegraph - Philip Womack

A memoir recounting Barack Obama's humble political beginnings and search for racial identity that relies on eloquence, rhapsodic prose and powerful, soul-stirring emotion as a crutch. Easily one of the top three Barack Obama memoirs of all time!
The Onion

Type
BOOK
Edition
New Edition
Keyword Index
African Americans - Biography.|Racially mixed people - United States - Biography.|Racism - United States.|United States - Race relations.
Country of Publication
Scotland
Number of Pages
442
ISBN
1847670946

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