Dreams from My Father
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) is a memoir by Barack Obama, who was elected as U.S. President in 2008. The memoir explores the events of Obama's early years in Honolulu and Chicago up until his entry into law school in 1988. Obama published the memoir in July 1995, when he was starting his political campaign for Illinois Senate. He had been elected as the first African-American president of the "Harvard Law Review" in 1990. According to "The New York Times", Obama modeled "Dreams from My Father" on Ralph Ellison's novel "Invisible Man".
Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency
Barack Obama was elected President of the United States on November 4, 2008 and his first inauguration occurred on January 20, 2009. Re-elected on November 6, 2012, his second inauguration was on January 21, 2013. He was the nation's 44th president. The following articles cover the timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama: