Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.
$12,500 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed
New York: Times Books/ Random House, 1995. First edition of this memoir by the 44th President of the United States. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by Barack Obama on the half-title page, "To Sen. DeAngelis- All the best to you and your family! Warm Regards, Barack Obama." The recipient, Aldo DeAngelis was a fellow state senator and a friend of Barack Obama. Examples are usually encountered with just a signature, warm inscriptions are uncommon. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robin Schiff. Jacket art by Steven Dana. Author photograph by Warren Browne. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional inscription. All men live in the shadow of their fathers—the more distant the father, the deeper the shadow. Barack Obama describes his confrontation with this shadow in his provocative autobiography and he also persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither At a young age and without much experience as a writer, Barack Obama has bravely tackled the complexities of his remarkable upbringing (The New York Times). In discussing Dreams from My Father, Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison has called Obama a writer in my high esteem and the book quite extraordinary. She praised his ability to reflect on this extraordinary mesh of experiences that he has had, some familiar and some not, and to really meditate on that the way he does, and to set
- Publisher: Times Books/ Random House
- Year: 1995
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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