Dreams from My Father Reviews

To the Point

We just finished listening to the excellent audio book-  CD - by Barack Obama called Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. It was a terrific autobiography that my husband and I both very much enjoyed.

A Closer View

This is a 6-CD set. The book was originally written right after Barack Obama graduated from Harvard Law School. If you have been hiding under a rock Obama is running for President on the Democratic ticket. He’s young; he’s of color and he’s smart.

He wrote the book in 1995 before he was elected to the Illinois Senate. In 2004 he gave a speech...

Being a single, white mother of a teenage, Aftrican-American son, I was naturally drawn to Barack Obama's telling of his life.  There were so many aspects of his story with which I was able to identify that it is difficult to justly summarize them here.  Still, hoping that others will take the time to read this book, it is well worth trying.

Soon after graduating from Harvard, Mr. Obama was asked to write the story of his life.  In an ideal family situation, a son or a daughter learns strength of character and compassion from a loving and nurturing father and mother.  How many of us, though,...

This guy really knows how to push all the emotional buttons. Dreams from My Father? Give me a break. Does he mean the father who the Kennedy's personally sponsored to come to America? The father who herded sheep in Africa? The father who married a "white girl from Kansas" and then left when their baby was two years old, never to be heard from again? The father that he never knew?

Whatever values Barack learned from his father are not the values we need in the President of the United States. And the only dreams he has are rising to the top of his political profession, by whatever means he can employ...

I loved this book. I now understand exactly  where such a dynamic person got his strength. Thoughout his life he was surrounded  by proud; caring; supportive; intelligent people that helped to shape him into the man he is today. I could not put this book down!