Autobiography Quote by Jonathan Raban

I read contrived memoirs by presidential candidates. For every 'Dreams From My Father' - Barack Obama's honest, literary portrayal of his biracial upbringing -…

— Amy Chozick

'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical…

— David Garrow

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama,…

— James Fallows

This book [Dreams from My Father] was more of a reflection on my public life, now as a U.S. senator and before that as…

— Barack Obama

Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends,…

— Jonathan Raban

“Even a supportive Obama biographer like David Remnick called Dreams a “mixture of verifiable fact, recollection, re-creation, invention, and artful shaping.”

— Jack Cashill

President Ronald Reagan on his 1980 opponent: "I had a dream the other night. I dreamed that Jimmy Carter came to me and asked…

— Bob Dole

The last book I read to my mom was 'Barbara Bush: A Memoir' published by mom in 1994. It reflected on their entire life…

— Neil Bush

When I was 7, I told my dad I want to have a house like Micheal Jackson's one. And then he said to me…

— Cristiano Ronaldo

“In school they told us the president was the best man in the whole country but I knew my father was the best man…

— Rita Mae Brown

I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of…

— Dan Rather

“My own dad had given me a terrific gift: he told me, both verbally and by his behavior, that he cared only about the…

— Anonymous