Recommended by Robert McCrum, and 1 others. See all reviews
Ranked #11 in Dreams, Ranked #20 in Hawaii — see more rankings.
Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. Dreams from My Father tells the story of Obama’s struggle to understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a black African father and white American mother—a struggle that takes him from the American heartland to the ancestral home of his great-aunt in the tiny African village of Alego.
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Robert McCrum He is really is a globish president and a brilliant writer. He is of Kenyan origin, grew up in Kansas and Hawaii. His reference is Islam, America, Kenyan tribal customs, Indonesia. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Dreams from My Father is ranked in the following categories:
- #90 in African
- #48 in African American
- #33 in Autobiography
- #62 in Bibliography
- #43 in Biography
- #35 in Chicago
- #95 in Factual
- #24 in Fatherhood
- #68 in Identity
- #30 in Indonesia
- #78 in Liberalism
- #54 in Memoir
- #48 in Politics
- #26 in Presidents
- #74 in Public