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    <![CDATA[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.<br/><br/>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. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books that I want to buy for everyone I know.  Apart from any of the political ideas in the book or whether or not one is excited by his presidency, Obama is a fantastic writer -- this is one of the best memoirs I have ever read.  Apart from an occasional slip into melodramatic ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44124379">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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