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001 2009379425
003 DLC
005 20110622140944.0
008 090218s2008 stk 000 0aeng
010 $a 2009379425
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
020 $a9781847673510 (pbk.)
020 $a1847673511 (pbk.)
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aE185.97.O23$bA3 2008
082 00 $a328.73092$aB$223
100 1 $aObama, Barack.
245 10 $aDreams from my father :$ba story of race and inheritance /$cBarack Obama.
260 $aEdinburgh :$bCanongate,$c2008.
300 $axvii, 442 p. ;$c18 cm.
500 $aThis edition appears without the keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004.
520 $aIn 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.
600 10 $aObama, Barack.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$vBiography.
650 0 $aRacially mixed people$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aRacism$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations.