Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President - Rilegato

Cashill, Jack

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ISBN 10: 1451611110 ISBN 13: 9781451611113

Casa editrice: Threshold Editions, 2011

Riassunto

Did Obama write his own books and is the story they tell true?

“I've written two books,” Barack Obama told a crowd of teachers in July of 2008. “I actually wrote them myself.” The teachers exploded in laughter. They got the joke: lesser politicians were not bright enough to do the same. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama supporters pointed to the first of those two books, the 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, as proof of Obama’s superior intellect. Time magazine called Dreams “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician.” The Obama campaign machine traded on the candidate’s literary reputation, encouraging volunteers to “get out the vote and keep talking to others about the genius of Barack Obama.”

There was just one small flaw, as writer and literary detective Jack Cashill discovered months before the November 2008 election: nothing in Obama’s history suggested he was capable of writing either Dreams or his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope. In fact, as Cashill continued his research, he came to the shocking conclusion that the real craftsman behind Dreams was terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers.

“This was a charge,” David Remnick admits in his definitive Obama biography, The Bridge, “that if ever proved true, or believed to be true among enough voters, could have been the end of the candidacy.”

Deconstructing Obama tells the story of what happens when a citizen journalist discovers a game-changing reality that the media refuse to acknowledge. Despite their rejection, Cashill expanded his research into Obama’s literary canon. As he came to see, if Dreams serves as sacred text, the poem “Pop” is the Rosetta stone, the key to deciphering Obama’s shrouded past, his fragile psyche, and his uniquely cryptic political life. In unlocking that past, Cashill discovered that the story that Obama has been telling all his life varies from the true story in ways big and small. In fact, much of Obama’s life story appears to be a wholly constructed fabrication, one that Jack Cashill “deconstructs” to show the world just who Barack Obama really is.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Jack Cashill is the author of What's the Matter with California? Cultural Rumbles from the Golden State and Why the Rest of Us Should Be Shaking, published by Threshold Editions. He is also the author of Popes and Bankers: A Cultural History of Credit and Debt, from Aristotle to AIG; Hoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture; and other nonfiction works. He is the executive editor of Ingram's business magazine and has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Fortune magazine. He has a Ph.D. in American Studies from Purdue University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Threshold Editions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1451611110
• ISBN 13: 9781451611113
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 343
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile