Years before
President Obama launched a legislative career that would eventually bring him to the
White House, he was a small-time author at times working the local bookstore circuit.
His book, "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" - first published in 1995 and reprinted numerous times since - brought him enough notoriety to land him on page 7 of an August 1995 edition of
New York Magazine , in a
Barnes & Noble ad. ...