来自我父亲的梦想（英文版）: 奥巴马自传：
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. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father?a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man?has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey?first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces he migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance
  我父亲的梦想》从父亲之死开始写起，分为三部分，第一部分便是奥巴马“母亲像牛奶，而父亲像煤炭”的身世。父亲为肯尼亚留美学生，在奥巴马两岁时离他们母子而去，使奥巴马成为母亲家中唯一的“黑人”。第二部分是奥巴马在芝加哥南区三年的社区经历，他屡屡受挫但次次坚持，并由此真正开始了对美国社会问题的思索。第三部分是奥巴马的“寻根之旅”，这发端于他与同父异母妹妹在纽约的见面。就读哈佛大学法学院之前，奥巴马带着“一个西方人，西方却不是我的家；一个非洲人，非洲却是陌生的土地”的疑问，远行肯尼亚，“坐在两个坟墓之间哭泣了很久”，最终“知道自己是谁了”，随后感言“我的问题也是兄弟们的问题”……