Dreams From My Father
Why did he come to New York to study at Columbia?
What made him come to that decision?
What made him come to that decision?
Moving to New York, he reasoned, would put him in touch with more African Americans. His stay in New York got off to an inauspicious start because no one answered when Obama knocked on the door of his sublet. Obama slept in an alley and read letters from his father on his first night in the city.