Dreams From my Father : : a Story of Race and Inheritance Young Reader's Edition
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"Adapted for young adults"--Cover
Young adult adaptation of: Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / by Barack Obama. Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995.
Now adapted for young adults, the #1 New York times best-selling memoir offers an intimate look at Barack Obama's early days, tracing the future 44th president's odyssey through family, race, and identity.
The son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. Obama 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. -- adapted from jacket
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PUBLISHED
New York : Delacorte Press, [2021]
Year Published: 2021
Description: xi, 302 pages, 8 unnumberd pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical table ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780385738729
SUBJECTS
Obama, Barack.
African Americans -- Biography.
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.
Racism -- United States.
United States -- Race relations.