[POLITICAL]. OBAMA, Barack Hussein. Dreams from my Father. New York: Times Books, 1995. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, SIGNED BY BARACK OBAMA on the title-page of the former president?s first book. Dreams from My Father was published as Barack Obama was preparing to run for the Illinois Senate, and was re-published nine years later when he announced his candidacy for the United States Senate. The book was described as ?the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician? by Time columnist Joe Klein.