Dreams From My Father

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) is a memoir by Barack Obama that explores the events of his early years in Honolulu and Chicago until his entry into Harvard Law School in 1988. Obama originally published his memoir in 1995, when he was starting his political campaign for the 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.

Barack Obama's first book was released a year before he was elected to the Illinois Senate, and long before his eight years in the White House under the constant scrutiny of the public. "Dreams From My Father" is a touching and honest work of self-examination, refreshingly devoid of the virtue-signaling and joyful moralizing that makes so many politicians' memoirs sound like notes to a stump speech.

Obama recalls a background that set him distinct, with a tangle of roots that didn't provide him with a clear picture of who he was. His father was Kenyan, while his mother was from Kansas. Obama was born in Hawaii, spent time in Indonesia, and was mostly raised by his mother and maternal grandparents when his father departed for Harvard when he was two years old. This is a book about the uses of disenchantment; the revelations are all the more astonishing for being modest and hard-won.

Detailed information:

Author: Barack Obama
Language: English
Genre: Memoir

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