false 88061 33 Before Barack Obama became a politician he was, among other things, a writer. Dreams from My Father is his masterpiece: a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man asking the big questions about identity and belonging. The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama recounts an emotional odyssey. He retraces the migration of his mother's family from Kansas to Hawaii, then to his childhood home in Indonesia. Finally he travels to Kenya, where he confronts the bitter truth of his father's life and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. 86032 1995 Dreams from My Father total:13555|5:3520|4:6294|3:3159|2:471|1:111| 13555 53306 22063 3136 4 40 false false Mon Feb 04 11:27:11 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 12:49:51 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 11:26:53 -0800 2008
Here’s why: even though I didn’t realize it when I picked it up, Obama wrote this book over ten ...more...]]> 5 8 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 01:12:06 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 01:45:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 8 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 12:06:44 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 19 02:49:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 7 true false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 11 09:03:08 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 20 10:40:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 7 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 26 15:21:45 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 09 19:46:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 4 false false Fri Jan 23 18:59:03 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 17:17:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 08:47:24 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 08:58:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 5 false false Tue Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 12:10:13 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 06:29:59 -0700 2008
I think each section left me w...more...]]> 4 3 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 17:03:06 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 16:36:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 09:07:17 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 20:54:22 -0700 2008 Dreams From My Father
New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004
453 pp. $13.95
1-4000-8277-3


The United States is recognized as a nation of immigrants with the ability to re-invent themselves and adapt to the culture of their adopted home. However, it...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Mon Mar 31 04:04:34 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 04:04:34 -0700 2008 ...more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue Dec 30 22:58:14 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 20 09:08:45 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 30 22:58:14 -0800 2008
“The room fell quiet and people turned to my father, expecting a fight. Instead, my father stood up, wal...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Dec 28 15:10:29 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 15:16:54 -0800 2008 write. This was an excellent book about figuring out who you are and what your place in the universe might be. On the surface it was about how to be a black (or biracial) American, but it was also about being a third-culture kid, and deeper still, it addressed the question we all ha...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jan 22 14:28:08 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 07 08:21:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 10:26:56 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 02:06:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Tue May 27 22:10:28 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 15:43:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 14:39:17 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 16:14:08 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sun Apr 08 22:15:54 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 08 22:24:04 -0700 2007 written July 2005]

This week at the library, it was a pair of politicians' autobiographies: Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama, and It's My Party Too by Christine Whitman.

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Written while Mr. Obam...more...]]> 4 3 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 13 08:45:14 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 08:43:19 -0700 2008 more...]]>