Dreams from My Father

A Story of Race and Inheritance

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In this bestselling memoir, written in the wake of his father’s death and first published in 1995, Barack Obama recalls his childhood in Hawaii, his social activism in Chicago, and a formative visit to Kenya, his father’s homeland. Against the backdrop of America’s troubled racial politics, he reflects on his mixed heritage as the son of a white American woman and an African man, whose letters on blue airmail paper offered advice and inspiration.

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