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| Named Person: | Barack Obama |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Barack Obama |
| ISBN: | 1400082773 9781400082773 |
| OCLC Number: | 55534889 |
| Description: | xvii, 453 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. With new introd. and text from keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004. |
| Responsibility: | Barack Obama. |
| More information: | Contributor biographical information Sample text Publisher description |
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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