<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> 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>
when did obama write dreams from my father
when did obama write dreams from my father
1995
1995