Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

US precedence, and the census claim is correct: the 1995 Times Books hardcover is the true first, with no competing first edition from another country and no original-language issue behind it. The book went out of print soon after publication and was reissued in 2004 by Crown / Three Rivers Press following Obama's Democratic National Convention keynote; that 2004 reissue is the copy most commonly offered as a "first edition" and is not one.