Obama's Book

By Sam Felder on August 14, 2004 10:29 AM | | Comments (0)

A few years ago my mom saw a book at the Bradley bookstore and was intrigued by the story. She bought it, read it, and was moved by the incredible personal journey of the author. The book was just a little memoir but it stuck in her memory.

Last week she was listening to Fresh Air with Terry Gross and became captivated with Senate candidate Barak Obama's tale of his life. She looked at my father and said "that sounds familiar."

She ran upstairs and pulled this book off the shelf. Looking at the cover she realized that the book she read all those years ago was Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barak Obama.

At the time he was a law professor interested in exploring and telling his story about his search for racial identity. My mother described the book to my father, at the time she first read it, as a profoundly well-written and genuine work.

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