<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) is a memoir by Barack Obama, who was elected as U.S. President in 2008 . It explores events of his early years, up until his entry into law school in 1988 . Obama published the memoir in July 1995, when he was starting his political campaign for Illinois Senate . He had been elected as the first African - American president of the Harvard Law Review in 1990 . According to The New York Times, Obama modeled Dreams from My Father on Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man . </P> <P> After Obama won the U.S. Senate Democratic primary victory in Illinois in 2004, the book was re-published that year . He gave the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention (DNC) and won the Illinois Senate seat in the fall . Obama launched his presidential campaign three years later . The 2004 edition includes a new preface by Obama and his DNC keynote address . </P>

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