Books in the Genre Social Sciences

Book: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Author: Barack Obama

Description: In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American.

Barack Obama opens his story in New York, where he hears that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has died in a car accident. The news triggers a chain of memories and inspires an emotional odyssey, as Barack retraces his family's unusual history: the migration of his mother's family from small-town Kansas to... (keep reading...)

Book: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Author: Barack Obama

Description: Barack Obama

Ilinois's Democratic senator illuminates the constraints of mainstream politics all too well in this sonorous manifesto. Obama castigates divisive partisanship (especially the Republican brand) and calls for a centrist politics based on broad American values.

His own cautious liberalism is a model: he's skeptical of big government and of Republican tax cuts for the rich and Social Security privatization; he's prochoice, but respectful of prolifers; supportive of religion, but not of imposing... (keep reading...)