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Dreams from My Father
- A Story of Race and Inheritance
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Politics & Activism
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Publisher's Summary
Now available unabridged on audio for the first time
Number one New York Times best seller
One of Essence's 50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Past 50 Years
In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World).
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.
Critic Reviews
“Fluidly, calmly, insightfully, Obama guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race.” (Washington Post Book World)
“Beautifully crafted...moving and candid.... This book belongs on the shelf beside works like James McBride’s The Color of Water and Greg Williams’ Life on the Color Line as a tale of living astride America’s racial categories.” (Scott Turow)
“Provocative.... Persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither.” (The New York Times Book Review)
“One of the most powerful books of self-discovery I’ve ever read, all the more so for its illuminating insights into the problems not only of race, class, and color, but of culture and ethnicity. It is also beautifully written, skillfully layered, and paced like a good novel.” (Charlayne Hunter-Gault)
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 11-24-21
It’s okay
I’m a conservative. I am working on being open minded, so I listened to this book to better understand the leader of the Democrat party. He did an outstanding job narrating this book and it is well written. The most surprising thing is how often he told stories that were based off of his assumptions and what he imagined of people to feel like or to have said.
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- Veronica Thibodeaux
- 11-23-21
Humbling
I absolutely loved hearing the history of this great man. Learning about the experiences that shaped him and finding that in the end he os also very ordinary. It is our choices that shape us along with providence.
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- jumpunjim
- 11-15-21
Barack Obama is a great story teller
Barack Obama is a great man and I think that includes almost everything he does. The story does get a little slow towards the end BUT his ability to write and his ability to read the different characters is truly great.
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- Gene R.
- 10-26-21
Powerful
I'm as white as a sheet of printer paper so the struggles of a black man are not my experience. However I do try and understand the best I can. Obama talked a lot in this about a lot of interpersonal, and interracial conflicts I'd never considered and it was illuminating.
However even outside of that the story was riveting, emotional, and truly wonderful to listen to. I will absolutely revisit this one in time.