Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama, 1995
Obama’s memoir explores the events of his early years in Honolulu and Chicago up until his entry into law school in 1988. Obama published the memoir in July 1995, when he was starting his political campaign for Illinois Senate. The book tells the story of Obama’s struggle to understand the forces that shaped him, being the son of a black African father and white American mother. Obama’s biography might be the most revealing portrait we have of a major American leader.
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“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama