Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Posted on Saturday, December 19th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
- ISBN13: 9781400082773
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
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.
Pictured in lefthand photograph on cover: Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr. (President Obama’s paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy). Pictured in righthand photograph on cover: Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham (President Obama’s maternal grandfather and his mother as a young girl).
Bill Ayers sure can write a good book. Some great fiction mixed with some nice platitudes that everyone can project on to – like the candidate himself.
Rating: 1 / 5
This was one of the most boring books that I have ever read! Obama’s writing is just like his “speaking”, Nothing Is Told In Any Real Order, You Feel Like You Are Going in A Big Circle…But Never Receiving A Complete “Answer”!
There Is Much About His “Life Story” That Is Left Out By Him, Or Whomever Really Wrote This Memoir! I Could Never Figure Out Where Barry Got His Money That Allowed Him To Travel All Over The United States And Throughout Other Countries, While Being Able To Attend Some Of The Finest Schools In America! What Really Convinced Him To Move from New York To Chicago To Accept A “Community Organizer” Job That Only Paid $1000 A Month??? Actually It Sounded As If He Really Did Not Preform His “Job” Very Well!
What Is Clear To Me Though Is The RACIST Side Of Obama Against WHITES, His Experimentation With DRUGS Like Crack Cocaine, And His Stated Learnings & Interests About Socialism, Marxism, and Communism!!
Too Bad More People Did Not Read This Book And Learn The Same Things About Him…Coz It Made Up My Mind That I Could Never Vote For Him!!!!! STILL TOO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS CHICAGO POLITICIAN!! I Am Very Concerned Now, About America’s Future!
Rating: 2 / 5
HE IS NOT WHO YOU THINK HE IS – HE’S A MONSTER
From Dreams of My Father:’I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.’
From Dreams of My Father : ‘I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.’
From Dreams of My Father:’There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.’
From Dreams of My Father:’I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa , that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela
Rating: 1 / 5
This book is a “spin” piece released well in advance of Obama’s political career to lay the groundwork: the BS myth was already well in place when he decided to run.
Now we know the TRUTH: That he was born in Kenya, not Hawaii (two cases are now before the United States Supreme Court to decide his eligibility since he is not a natural-born citizen); he did not go to Harvard law school on “student loans” as he stated but rather his education was financed by a Saudi billionaire; geneaologists state that there is ZERO Cherokee in his bloodline; and on and on.
WHO is this man? WHAT is his real name, is it Barry Sotero? WHO is his daddy, was it really Malcolm X (the likeness is uncanny!)? These and other questions MUST be answered.
This man is a PHONY, a FRAUD, and a LIAR. If you fall for the BS in his book you are a moron.
Rating: 2 / 5
Of all the books that deserve ALL multiple formats, it is this one! There needs to be a cassette tape version that is unabridged. There needs to be a cassette version that is abridged. There needs to be a CD version that is unabridged. Any version that would increase access to the reading public to this book should be done. Please, please, please, publishers, yes, there is a market!!!!
Rating: 1 / 5