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Barack Obama's memoir ''Dreams from My Father'' is an extraordinary, moving work of literature, writes Vincent Browne

FRANK WAS an elderly black poet. The young man's grandfather used to visit him. The grandfather and Frank drank together, talked and then, usually, the grandfather would fall asleep. The young man went there occasionally just to talk and one evening did so just before he was to leave home for college. Frank spoke of the "price of admission" for college. The young man asked what he meant.