OBAMA, BARACK — Dreams from My Father

Readers Digest. 2009. Paperback with dust jacket, 23.5cm. Book, 288pp & less than 500g. Edition put out by Readers Digest (approx 120pp edited from original of some 400pp) - quote > highlights the core of his life story, revealing a great heart, a remarkable intelligence, and a man who dares to put his faith in humanity. 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. Excellent/None issued.