Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

I would give it a 5. But from the looks of it. I would be better off buying a real actual book to read whenever i want. My connections is always dropping and i can't finish reading the book. I began lose interest. I need it for school. Wo I'm just gonna waste more money somewhere else. THis is a piece of crap. Just bought thia phone a month ago Galaxy S3 and horrible mobile data connection. Where can i download this to ny computer or phone.?

Great read. Obama gives you some insight into how he came about discovering himself - how he sort of finds his place in this world. Dreams From My Father talks focuses on how he discovers who his father really was. But I find the book slightly "distant" - in the sense, I feel like I would like to know more - there're a lot of things left unsaid.

President Barack Obama’s books (”The Audacity of Hope,” and “Dreams from my Father”), are the work of a mind our contemporaries recognise as that of a man who came from unique circumstances and rose to be the leader of the world. The Election of President Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America means many things to different peoples: To African-Americans, he is a fulfilment of the Dream of Dr. King. To my LUO people of Kenya, he is their first President. To the world, he perhaps is the right medicine to a world divided and bedevilled by interracial, religious and ideological strifes. He inherited world hungry for food and medicine; he took over a world at war; he is managing a world threatened with total economic collapse; he is soothing a world tittering on a new scramble for increasingly scarce resources. Reading President Obama’s books (”The Audacity of Hope,” and “Dreams from my Father”), one has a reason to hope for the better from America, even though he is a product of a particular manner of governance. The first book, “Dreams from My Father,” introduces Obama to the world, and must be judged as a “master stroke” in the art of political persuasion, even before his Red-Blue-States Speech of 2004. In this first book, “Dreams from my Father,” Author Barack Obama, now President Barack Obama, tells the world this: this is me; this is how I was born; this is how I was raised; these are my beliefs and doubts; and this is what my journey has been, so far. By spilling out the cultural delicacies, including a cocktail of religious beliefs to have come his way–thanks to the mind of his inquisitive mother–; by admitting to having done all that is doable by a young man; by revealing that he struggled with questions about his race to the extent of even doubting himself and kin, Obama told the world in general, and America in particular this: I am not a perfect man; I know you; I am one of you; I understand your pain; I empathise with your daily struggles and doubts, even if you doubt my authenticity as an American, as an African, as a black man, as an African-American man, or as a Christian of Muslim ancestry. According to the narrative in “Dreams from my Father,” what is missing in his life as a young man is his mythical Kenyan father, whom he sees once before Obama Sr dies. The title of the book is a cry of what his youth could have been: perhaps a less troublesome; having someone to talk to man-to-man. But this is only a dream, because one cannot choose his parents!