#75 in Biography & memoir
Dreams from My Father
- 442
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Dreams from My Father” is a candid, well-written memoir about race, family and what a person owes to those who came before. It follows Obama from a Honolulu childhood to Chicago, ending as he enters Harvard Law School, with an openness unexpected in a politician. Some feel that it passes lightly over the experiences it recounts. Its natural readers are those drawn to a life shaped by more than one country and community.
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About the book
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) is a memoir by Barack Obama that explores the events of his early years in Honolulu and Chicago until his entry into Harvard Law School in 1988. Obama originally published his memoir in 1995, when he was starting his political campaign for the Illinois Senate.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 195 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 57% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Biography & memoir average of 8.1. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.6 | 10 | 5% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 185 | 95% |
Frequently asked
How long is Dreams from My Father?
It has 442 pages — longer than 85% of the ranked books in Biography & memoir.
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