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 odysseyє́јfirst to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration...

A biography of the youngest player, and the first person of color, ever to win the Masters Golf Tournament.