A review by kdawn999
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama

3.0

I normally wouldn’t dream of reading anything abridged, but that was the only audio option I could find with Obama reading it himself, and I really couldn’t imagine listening to someone else. He is a good reader, and I was drawn in to any family details—especially of his years growing up in Indonesia, which I hadn’t given much thought to before. The part about community organizing dragged for me, and I wish that bit had felt more personal than politically motivated. But this did remind me of all the hope felt about Obama in 2008 and this uniquely global citizen we were lucky to call president once.