Dreams from My Father A Story of Race and Inheritance (Signature Authenticated)

Barack Obama

ISBN 10: 0307383415 / ISBN 13: 9780307383419

Published by Crown Publishers, 2004

About this Item

SIGNED. AUTHENTICATED. NOT PRICE CLIPPED. Some ink dots on the upper-right hand on the first blank page. (It looks like ink transfer from another page, but no writing on the DJ flap that lays against this page) The book contains a Letter of Authenticity (LOA) from the PSA/DNA Autograph Authentication Company. It has the patented, numbered PSA/DNA sticker affixed to it. Third printing. (Number line 3-10) Signed by soon-to-be President Obama in person in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Feb. 2008, after a rally before the Wisconsin primary election. The autographed title page is pictured in color on the LOA. The LOA can be verified on the PSA/DNA website. The number is G59778. A small PSA/DNA sticker with the number has been placed at the bottom of the signed title page. In 2011, Time Magazine listed the book on its top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923. Stored and mailed in ARCHIVE-QUALITY, BRODART, double-track zippered bag. Mailed priority with complementary insurance and online tracking within the US. Ask for accurate international mail costs. No hassle, 100% money-back guarantee if returned in the same condition within 30 days of delivery. More scans are available. Questions welcome. Thanks for looking. Yes, we can! 10/12-500.4/8,1/1+1001/1.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dreams from My Father A Story of Race and Inheritance (Signature Authenticated)
• Publisher: Crown Publishers
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307383415
• ISBN 13: 9780307383419
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Barack and Michelle Obama SIGNED, VERIFIED
  • American History and Politics

About this title

Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS

In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World).
 
“Quite extraordinary.”—Toni Morrison 
 
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.
 
Praise for Dreams from My Father
 
“Beautifully crafted . . . moving and candid . . . This book belongs on the shelf beside works like James McBride’s The Color of Water and Gregory Howard Williams’s Life on the Color Line as a tale of living astride America’s racial categories.”—Scott Turow
 
“Provocative . . . Persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither.”—The New York Times Book Review
  
“Obama’s writing is incisive yet forgiving. This is a book worth savoring.”—Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here
 
“One of the most powerful books of self-discovery I’ve ever read, all the more so for its illuminating insights into the problems not only of race, class, and color, but of culture and ethnicity. It is also beautifully written, skillfully layered, and paced like a good novel.”—Charlayne Hunter-Gault, author of In My Place
 
“Dreams from My Father is an exquisite, sensitive study of this wonderful young author’s journey into adulthood, his search for community and his place in it, his quest for an understanding of his roots, and his discovery of the poetry of human life. Perceptive and wise, this book will tell you something about yourself whether you are black or white.”—Marian Wright Edelman

About the Author

Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States, elected in November 2008 and holding office for two terms. He is the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize and the New York Times bestselling author of Dreams from My Father, The Audacity of Hope, and A Promised Land. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Michelle. They have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.