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NEWS ABOUT: Dreams From My Father

Dreams From My Father stories: 11 news summaries
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 100 Defining 
 Moments 
 of the '00s 

The iPod, Guitar Hero, Twitter—and some serious moments, too

Oct 30, 09 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - From the tragic (World Trade Center attacks, Hurricane Katrina) to the seemingly trivial (Stephen Fry's first Tweet), the Telegraph lists the top 100 defining cultural moments of the decade so far:
  • April 2000: Metallica sues music-sharing service Napster.
  • October 2001: The iPod is released.
  • February
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Barack Obama • Hurricane Katrina • James Cameron • YouTube • Academy Awards • Al Gore • World Trade Center • iPod • September 11 • An Inconvenient Truth • Michael Moore • Michael Jackson • Napster • Metallica • Guitar Hero • Sacha Baron Cohen • Dreams From My Father • George W. Bush • Twitter • 9/11 attacks • Slumdog Millionaire • Oscars • PlayStation 2 • Stephen Fry • tweet • Jay-ZTV • Avatar (film)

(Newser) - Prison officials refused to let an al-Qaeda terrorist serving 30 years in Supermax, a prison in Colorado, read Barack Obama's books, the Daily Telegraph reports. Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, an American citizen convicted of conspiring to, among other things, assassinate then–President George W. Bush, was told that the books... More »

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Barack Obama • prison • terrorist • al-Qaeda • Dreams From My Father • prisoner • Supermax • President Obama

(Newser) - Barack Obama will be “the best president he can be,” Bob Dylan tells the Times of London, though he has “no idea” if Obama will actually be good at the job. “Most of those guys come into office with the best of intentions and leave as... More »

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Barack Obama • Bob Dylan • presidential politics • memoir • book • Dreams From My Father • celebrity interview • President Obama

 Time for Obama to Channel 
 Foul-Mouthed Buddy—Again 

Audiobook snippets are surprisingly timely

Feb 6, 09 2:03 PM CST
(Newser) - Now that things are getting nasty in the stimulus fight, the Boston Phoenix has a suggestion for Barack Obama: Channel your potty-mouthed pal Ray. In the audio version of his autobiography, the Phoenix notes that Obama does an impression of his high school friend, complete with f-bombs, racial slurs, and... More »

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Barack Obama • profanity • Dreams From My Father • audio books

Brits Tortured Obama Patriarch in Kenya Revolt

Granddad was jailed, beaten for 2 years in '50s Mau Mau uprising

Dec 3, 08 9:09 AM CST
(Newser) - British jailers tortured Barack Obama's grandfather during the struggle for Kenyan independence, his family tells the Times of London. Hussein Onyango Obama, who worked as a cook for a British army officer, was arrested in 1949, aged 56, and imprisoned for two years. There he was subjected to daily whippings... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • torture • empire • colonialism • Mau Mau rebellion • Dreams From My Father • Sarah Obama • Obama family

 GOP Offered $10K to Prove Ayers Authored Obama Book

Goal was to prove Ayers penned 'Dreams From My Father'

Nov 2, 08 1:12 PM CST
(Newser) - A Republican congressman and his brother-in-law approached an Oxford philosophy don in an attempt to prove that Barack Obama's autobiography had been ghostwritten by William Ayers, the Times of London reports. Peter Millican says he was offered $10,000 to analyze Obama's Dreams From My Father and Ayers' Fugitive Days... More »

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Barack Obama • Oxford • memoir • ghostwrite • Dreams From My Father • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers

Obama Is a Son of Hawaii, but a Man of Chicago

Island looms large among the forces that shaped him

Aug 23, 08 2:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hawaii and Chicago shaped the Barack Obama we know today in very different ways, David Maranis writes in a detailed look at the candidate's formative years in the Washington Post. Hawaii, multiracial but with its own social stratification, helped form the young Obama's outlook on life, but he found himself... More »

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Barack Obama • Chicago • Hawaii • Honolulu • Dreams From My Father • Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro • Barack Obama Sr.

Obama Inspires Destitute Half-Brother

26-year-old George Obama sees role model in powerful bro

Aug 21, 08 11:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Presidential candidate Barack Obama's half-brother isn't on the campaign trail, he's living in a shack in a Kenyan slum, reports the Telegraph. George Hussein Obama, 26, has only spoken to his powerful relative twice in his life, but is crediting Barack for providing the inspiration to lift himself out... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • Dreams From My Father • George Obama • half-brother

Obama Audio Clips May Hurt Candidacy

Recording of his bestseller details drug use, attitudes on race

Jul 6, 08 2:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - GOP activists are salivating over audio clips of Barack Obama reading from his book, Dreams from My Father, detailing his attitudes on race and adventures with drugs. "I attended classes sparingly, drank beer heavily, and tried drugs enthusiastically," Obama says in a reading of the 1993 bestseller. Now... More »

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Barack Obama • Obama 2008 • attack ad • McCain 2008 • Dreams From My Father

Obama Senior's Long-Lost Political Writing Surfaces

Elder Barack critiqued Kenyan socialism

Apr 15, 08 11:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - A mid-'60s treatise on Kenyan socialism has been causing a stir in the 2008 US presidential election, Politico reports, because of its author—Barack Obama Sr. Titled “Problems Facing Our Socialism,” conservative bloggers believe the paper reveals the elder Obama’s hidden communist leanings. But the scholarly paper... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • socialism • father • Dreams From My Father

Obama Drug Use Minimal: Old Friends

Candor about teenage 'bad decisions' may have been overstated

Feb 9, 08 7:07 AM CST
(Newser) - In his memoir Barack Obama makes a rare admission—for a politician—of  “some bad decisions” as a teenager, of indulging in drinking and drugs before political activism led him out of apathy. But friends remember an already-focused Obama: an eloquent, poised young intellectual, active against South African apartheid... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • drug use • Hawaii • Dreams From My Father • Occidental College • teenager

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