So writes David Maraniss of Barack Obama’s putative autobiography Dreams of my Father Maraniss’s Barack Obama: The Story punctures two sets of falsehoods: The family tales Obama passed on, unknowing; and the stories Obama made up. The 672-page book closes before Obama enters law school, and Maraniss has promised another volumne, but by its conclusion I counted 38 instances in which the biographer convincingly disputes significant elements of Obama’s own
dreams of my father
May 3, 2012
Obama’s imaginary girlfriend is really no surprise … [Darleen Click]
… making up a girlfriend as a plot device to prove his black bonafides … “In Dreams from My Father, Obama chose to emphasize a racial chasm that unavoidably separated him from the woman he described as his New York girlfriend,” Maraniss writes, offering a passage from the book in which they go to see a play by a black playwright: One night I took her to see a new