Monday, November 21, 2011

Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama


                   Dreams from My Father tells the story of Obama's struggle to understand the forces that shape him as the son of a black African father and white American mother of a struggle that took him from the heart of America to the ancestral home of great-aunt in the tiny African village of Alego.
                 Obama began his story in New York, where he heard that his father-a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man has died in a car accident. The news triggered chain of memories as Barack retraces his family history of the ordinary: the migration of his mother's family from small town Kansas to the islands of Hawaii, the love that develops between his mother and a promising young Kenyan student, young love is fostered by the spirit of innocence and the integration of early years and six tens; diHawaii father died when Barack was two years old, Barack Obama raised himself to the fears and doubts that exist not only between black and white world of the greater, but in its own right. then Barack moved to Chicago to work as community organizers. There, against a background of chaotic political and racial conflict, he worked to re-center mounting despair.
                His story becomes one with the people of the people who work with when he learned about the value of community, the necessity of healing old wounds, and the possibility of faith in the midst of adversity. Barack traveled to Kenya, where he finally met with the African side of the family and his father's face the harsh reality of life. Traveling through a country racked by brutal poverty and tribal conflict, but the people are sustained by the spirit of endurance and hope, Barack discovers that he is inescapably bound to brothers and sisters living an ocean away-and that by embracing their common struggles he can finally reconcile the divided inheritance. Dreams from My Father might be the clearest picture we have of a great American leader-a man who played, and will play an increasingly important role in healing a troubled and fragmented nation. so it can build a country well. so, if you want buy this book click here

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