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The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to study the truth of his father's life and reconcile his divided inheritance. Written at the age of thirty-three, "Dreams from My Father" is an unforgettable read. It illuminates not only Obama's journey, but in addition our universal desire to comprehend our history, and what makes us the people we are.
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As Obama knows best, Da Nile is Indeed a River in Africa
2010-03-07
By James J. Smith (Tucson, AZ)
So, we've been told by 99.99% of the American Media that:
Obama is not a Socialist!
Obama is not a Marxist!
No no, Obama is indeed a Centrist Democrat!
Yet before he decided to campaign for President, or Senator, or US Rep (what exactly did he actually do outside of that before we handed him the most critically important job in the world?), he candidly exposed his core ideals by idealizing a boozing, marxist, polygamist failure of a dead beat dad, his father, Barack Obama Sr.
Now, one year into his utter disaster of a presidency, one in which he has only begun to dismantle the very framework of the greatest Republic the world has ever known, it is INARGUABLE that the apple has not fallen too far from the repugnant Obama family tree. His destruction of our wealth, his complete disregard for our Constitutional protections (ones he openly refers to as 'fundamentally flawed'), his embrace of criminals around the world bent on our annihilation, and his thinly veiled hatred for the non-black races all stem from the mad hallucinations of his drug and alcohol adled vermin of a father. A father whose anti-human ideals were further imprinted in our president's head by his even more vitriolic minister, Jeremiah Wright, and the ideological founder of their race hatred, James Cone.
What is happening to the United States today will be lamented about for centuries. And one day far from now, future generations will study this book, and ask in wonder, "how did they (us) not see what was coming?"
A book worth reading
2010-02-24
By Jose Alejandrino Baluyut (benahavis, malaga, ES)
Barack Obama hasn't disappointed me as a writer. His story of race and inheritance is excellent and is a book that all Americans should read to understand what makes Obama tick.The Journal of an Unknown Knight
Excellent memoir
2010-02-21
By Heather Crozier (Utah)
I never knew that President Barack Obama was a writer before he entered the political world. So I decided to pick this one up last year and read more about my new Commander-in-Chief, the first African-American President of the United States! I'm so glad I did. He has a beautiful way with words. He came from so many different worlds and he tried to understand them all...his white mother and Kenyan father. He lived in Indonesia for a few years as well. He tried to understand who he was and where he came from. He only met his father once...
He eventually went to Chicago to be a political organizer, to help get things turned around in neighborhoods that didn't have too much. And he eventually makes it to his father's native land of Kenya where he meets all of his family. Where he learns that "if everyone's your family then no one is."
This book was so insightful not only on race and life, but on the man himself, how he thinks and feels about the stuff of life. He's a down-to-earth guy who's trying to make life better for those around him. And in the end I like who he is what he thinks.
Some wonderful quotes: "That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories. "
"It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried."
Enjoyable regardless of politics
2010-02-15
By G. Burnett (Cincinnati, OH United States)
Written by now-President Obama when he was a recent law school grad, Dreams from My Father outlines a young man's search for a sense of purpose and place. It begins with news of his father's death, and then fills in the back story: Obama's life in Hawaii, then Indonesia, then Hawaii again with his grandparents. He describes his time as a community organizer in South Chicago, focusing on the people he worked with and the challenges he faced. Through this, Obama reflects on race, community, family, and his difficulty in coming to terms with who his father was. The book's third and finally section sees him joining his half-sister for a trip to Kenya, where he meets relatives and begins to resolve some of his issues.
The stories are interesting. The writing is good: it flows like a novel. I appreciate the reflection, though some of it comes across clumsily because its more meaningful to him than to us.
Interesting insights and a well-crafted autobiography
2010-02-14
By K. Olson (San Francisco, CA United States)
If you want to know what makes Barack Obama tick, this is the place to find it. In this autobiography, he recounts his rich, broad family history--ultimately taking us to four continents--to offer an honest, intimate glimpse into the influences that shaped him. Lucky for readers, he happens to be a great storyteller, sharing anecdotes and conversations that truly bring the "characters" to life.
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