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

From the author of Whats the Matter with California? comes a bold, well-researched examination of whether Barack Obamas Dreams from My Father and whether it is more myth than fact.

How did Barack Obama, a man who had previously written little else, suddenly pen what Time magazine calls the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician? Here, in Deconstructing Obama, political scholar and author Jack Cashill analyzes and pieces together Obamas statements about his life to get at the truth behind the man.

Cashills eureka moment came when he realized that the structure of Dreams of My Father loosely mirrors that of Homers Odyssey. From the moment of that revelation, Cashill researched, read, and examined interviews, writings, and statements about the Presidents life story, focusing especially on a poem written when Obama was nineteen. According to the facts, in conjunction with Obamas statements and writings, Cashills conclusion is that the stories dont add upand for the nearly 2 million people who read and accepted the story about Obamas lifethe truth is that it may be more myth than history. See more