A comparative analysis between Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father, with Katharine Graham’s Personal History

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gain a sense of his personal roots.
Barack Obama’s narration of mostly his father’s life story transcends many debatable topics such as racism and socioeconomic classifications. Topics such as these, brought out literally as needed in his accurate and factual description of their lives but not to create any arguable pointers of discussions. Barack Obama displays more interest in understanding how he came to be who and where he is at the time he writes—an African American civil rights lawyer fighting for the downtrodden in Chicago. Having lived on several continents, Obama writes this memoir from an intriguingly rich perspective. The motives of the public man in search of inspiration from his African ancestry are fully, compellingly explained, but other, more personal aspects of his past are left shrouded in silence.
This is similar to the book Personal History, written by Katharine Graham which presents her story, where she succeeded her father and husband as publisher of ...

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loving husband versus Supportive wife to mentally ill husband, Submissive wife versus Widowed feminist Full-time mother (albeit with a nanny) versus Full-time publisher of a growing newspaper, Insecure publisher versus Confident publisher, Shy woman versus Outspoken socialite. The constant struggle she faced throughout her life is what really drove her to success. In the case of Obama two scenes in his book that shaped this memoir as a whole and could be enough to make a thorough study on how Barack Obama Jr. found his sense of belongingness and a way to form an ambition being a public servant where: first , how his black father Barack Hussein Obama Sr. of Kenya and his white-colored ...

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