Dreams from My Father (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper))
by Barack Obama
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Author: Barack ObamaEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Large Print
Published: 2006-04-04
ISBN: 0739325760
Number of pages: 720
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Book Reviews of Dreams from My Father (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper))
Book Review: A racist book
Summary: 2 Stars
Obviously, I only bought and read the book, because Mr. Obama is in the race to become the next President.
The book is easy reading, the story he tells is interesting enough so you will not put the book away because you are bored. The father he searches for was a gifted man, who wasted his gifts, became an alcoholic and an abuse, yet is Mr. Obama's eyes, he had one redeeming quality - he was BLACK!
The book is full of racism! Not the "Red neck" kind of dumb racism, but a more sophisticated one - YET STILL RACISM!
After having read this book, it is easy to understand, why Mr. Obama had such a difficult time to separate himself from Reverend Wright - he simply believes the same racist agenda, Mr. Wright does!
Being a German national, the question of who to vote for does not arise, but I certainly feel, those Americans who contemplate voting for Mr. Obama should read this book.
Summary of Dreams from My Father (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper))
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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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