Dreams from My Father
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Dreams from My Father
Barack Obama
Biography & Memoir
James Mustich
Jul 30, 2018
An emotional and at times disarmingly candid memoir “of race and inheritance,” chronicling his life from childhood in Hawaii to Harvard Law School, the book was written before Obama was even a US senator from Illinois, let alone president of the United States. That makes it an uncommon and especially valuable memoir: unguarded, direct, and eminently readable. There is little in Dreams from My Father to suggest that, just thirteen years after its publication, its author would be standing on the steps of the Capitol and taking the oath of office as the first black president of the United States. Nevertheless, the book stands on its own as one of the finest memoirs by any American writer on the resonance of racial differences and the journey of self-discovery these differences can shape.
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