Dreams from My Father

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Dreams from My Father is Barack Obama’s acclaimed memoir that explores his early life, family history, and search for identity across the United States, Kenya, and Indonesia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
memoir
adaptation audiobook read by Barack Obama
author Barack Obama
awardReceived Grammy Award
surface form: Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
awardReceivedYear 2006
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
describes Barack Obama’s Indonesian childhood
Barack Obama’s Kenyan relatives
Ann Dunham
surface form: Barack Obama’s mother Ann Dunham

Barack Obama’s relationship with his father
focusesOnPeriod Barack Obama’s college years
Barack Obama’s community organizing in Chicago
Barack Obama’s early life
followedBy The Audacity of Hope
genre autobiography
political memoir
hasCoverSubject Barack Obama’s photograph
hasPart “Chicago” section
“Kenya” section
“Origins” section
includesEvent Barack Obama’s trip to Kenya
isbn10 081292343X
isbn13 9780812923438
language English
literaryStyle narrative non-fiction
reflective
mediaType audiobook
print
narrativePerspective first-person
notableFor depiction of community organizing
exploration of racial identity
portrayal of Barack Obama’s family background
originalPublicationYear 1995
pages 480
placeOfPublication New York City
publisher Times Books
reissueContext Barack Obama
surface form: Barack Obama’s 2004 Democratic National Convention speech
reissued 2004
reissuePublisher Random House
surface form: Three Rivers Press
setting Indonesia
Kenya
United States of America
surface form: United States
subject Barack Obama
family history
multiracial identity
race and identity
timeSpanCoveredEnd pre-law school years
timeSpanCoveredStart Barack Obama’s birth

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Barack Obama notableWork Dreams from My Father
The Audacity of Hope precededBy Dreams from My Father
A Promised Land partOf Dreams from My Father
this entity surface form: Barack Obama memoir series
Barack Obama Sr. describedBySource Dreams from My Father
Crown Publishers notableWork Dreams from My Father
this entity surface form: “Dreams from My Father”
Hussein Onyango Obama describedIn Dreams from My Father