"Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" (Barack Obama)

[pnorman]

The above is available at audible.com for listening at your computer, or in (selected) audio players such as iPod.

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Publisher's Summary
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.
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It runs over 7 hours and is narrated by Obama himself. Here it is: http://www.audible.com/adbl/store/productEntry.jsp?source_code=AUDW2945EM060705&productID=BK_RAND_000619

pnorman

[PunkPop]

1. Does he include the part where he gets elected to the senate

and immediately starts voting with the fascist Republicans he is supposed to oppose?

Or maybe the time he undermines his own chairman by mischaracterizing his statements?

Just curious.

[goodhue]

4. The book was first published 1995

The new 2004 edition has a new preface but otherwise does not cover the last ten years, much less the last year.

[Rowdyboy]

2. Got it for Christmas and haven't read it yet, but plan to soon.....

Having Trent Lott and Thad Cochran as my senators makes me envy people in illinois for having Obama and Durbin.

[pnorman]

3. For those interested in the audible version of that book,

you can listen to a sample excerpt. Quality of narration is what makes or breaks audible books, and in this case, Obama doses a good job. As a Premium Listener, I get two books each month (ANY books) for $20. I just put that one on the order list.

Not every MP3 player can handle Audible.com products, but an increasingly large number can. Check them out at that webpage.

pnorman

[GumboYaYa]

5. I read it in a day. It is a wonderful book.

Once I started reading, I could not put it down. Barak is a magnificent storyteller.