Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Written nine years before he took the Senate by storm and a NY Times bestseller when it was reprinted in 2004, 'Dreams From My Father' is presidential aspirant Barack Obama's compelling memoir of his experiences of coming to terms with his heritage and his place in America. Son of a white American woman and a black African father whose tragic death set Obama on the course of an emotional odyssey - first to the small town in Kansas from which he traced his mother's origins, to Hawaii, and then, to Kenya, where he discovered his father's roots - Obama shares and probes his struggles and triumphs as he searches for self-understanding and peace.