Dreams From My Father.

OBAMA, Barack.

Item Number: 2203

New York: Times Books/ Random House, 1995.

First edition. Octavo. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, “To Mark- Thanks for your help! Best wishes Barack Obama”. The recipient was the director of The Connie Martinson Talks Books Show. Although not dated, this book was signed in August 1995, on the ocassion of Obama being interviewed by Connie Martinson.The release date of “Dreams From My Father” was July 18,1995. Housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell box.

"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 up scenes in narrative structure, dialogue, conversation—all of these things that you don't often see, obviously, in the routine political memoir biography. It's unique. It's his. There are no other ones like that."