Dreams from My Father
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| Author | Barack Obama |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher |
Times Books (1995) Three Rivers Press (2004) |
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Publication date
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July 18, 1995 August 10, 2004 |
| Media type | Book |
| Pages | 403 (1995) 442 (2004) |
| ISBN | |
| OCLC | 55534889 |
| 973/.0405967625009/0092 B 22 | |
| LC Class | E185.97.O23 A3 2004 |
| Followed by | The Audacity of Hope |
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) is a memoir by Barack Obama, who was elected as U.S. President in 2008. It explores events of his early years up until his entry into law school in 1988. Obama published the memoir in July 1995, when he was starting his political campaign for Illinois Senate. He had been elected as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review in 1990. According to The New York Times, Obama modeled Dreams from My Father on Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man.
After Obama won the U.S. Senate Democratic primary victory in Illinois in 2004, the book was re-published that year. He gave the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention (DNC) and won the Illinois Senate seat in the fall. Obama launched his presidential campaign three years later. The 2004 edition includes a new preface by Obama and his DNC keynote address.
Obama recounts his life up to his enrollment in Harvard Law School. He was born in 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Obama, Sr. of Kenya, and Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas, who had met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's parents separated in 1963 and divorced in 1964, when he was two. Obama’s father went to Harvard to pursue his Ph.D. in economics. After that, he returned to Kenya to fulfill his promise to his nation.
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