271 reviews
Sales Rank: 87

Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 464

Dewey Decimal Number: 973.04960730092
ASIN: B000N2HCM4

Publication Date: January 9, 2007
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
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.

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1 out of 5 stars

Nightmares August 15, 2008
6 out of 12 found this review helpful

Would be a better title from his polygamist alcoholic father who abanonded everyone in his family. Read closely and you will see the roots of the radical rage that we will all inherit from this corrupt loser...the father and the son...if he is ever elected. I dare you to delve into his past and believe he is a good man. Chicago anyone?

5 out of 5 stars

Inspired...Hopeful...Daring to dream...Desperate for change August 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

America is desperate for change. I fear how far the country will continue to spiral downward without it. Collectively, let us bless this man (and his family) with our thoughts, prayers and good intentions.

5 out of 5 stars

Very easy to read August 13, 2008
I just finished this book and it was one of the better books I have read recently. It was very easy to read. Obama was very candid and I was impressed at how open and real he was in this book.... I feel like I know Barack Obama better now.

1 out of 5 stars

This man is a racist! August 12, 2008
6 out of 10 found this review helpful

I think anybody who is thinking about voting for this man needs to read this book. Obama comes across as an angry black man who is extremely prejudice against whites. I can't figure out how so many people like him, he is truly a racist and to see so, all you have to do is read this book!

2 out of 5 stars

? August 11, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

Is this an autobiography? What is the point of this book? What about the majority of Obama's life and relationships? I see no real mention of his mother and maternal sister as he became a adult.

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