"Dreams from My Father was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical fiction. It featured many true-to-life figures and a bevy of accurately described events that indeed had occurred, but it employed the techniques and literary license of a novel, and its most important composite character was the narrator himself." Is this perhaps some "Birther" claiming the author made up the story?
The author Barack Obama had no record of publication and he hints that another hand is at work.
"People have a hard time taking me at face value," the author explains, and sometimes "I sound like I'm trying to hide from myself." He also expresses "a stubborn desire to protect myself from scrutiny," which might leave David Garrow puzzled.
The narrative centers on the African father the author never knew, and he was "Trying to rewrite the stories, plugging up the holes in the narrative, accommodating unwelcome details." This was to extract "Some granite slab of truth upon which my unborn children can stand." Sounds good, but he also writes of a "Useful fiction" and explains, "My father became a prop in someone else's narrative. An attractive prop - an alien with the heart of gold, the mysterious stranger who saves the town and wins the girl - but a prop nonetheless."
The author's beloved "Frank," who gets more than 2,000 words, is the African American Communist Frank Marshall Davis, who spent much of his life defending all-white Stalinist dictatorships.
As Garrow noted, "Davis' Communist background plus his kinky exploits made him politically radioactive." That is why the author needed the narrative about the elusive foreign student, but Garrow couldn't compare the African's own account.
"You masquerade, you pompous jive, you act," she tells the author in a poem.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271791/myth-making-barack-obama-lloyd-billingsley
The author Barack Obama had no record of publication and he hints that another hand is at work.
"People have a hard time taking me at face value," the author explains, and sometimes "I sound like I'm trying to hide from myself." He also expresses "a stubborn desire to protect myself from scrutiny," which might leave David Garrow puzzled.
The narrative centers on the African father the author never knew, and he was "Trying to rewrite the stories, plugging up the holes in the narrative, accommodating unwelcome details." This was to extract "Some granite slab of truth upon which my unborn children can stand." Sounds good, but he also writes of a "Useful fiction" and explains, "My father became a prop in someone else's narrative. An attractive prop - an alien with the heart of gold, the mysterious stranger who saves the town and wins the girl - but a prop nonetheless."
The author's beloved "Frank," who gets more than 2,000 words, is the African American Communist Frank Marshall Davis, who spent much of his life defending all-white Stalinist dictatorships.
As Garrow noted, "Davis' Communist background plus his kinky exploits made him politically radioactive." That is why the author needed the narrative about the elusive foreign student, but Garrow couldn't compare the African's own account.
"You masquerade, you pompous jive, you act," she tells the author in a poem.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271791/myth-making-barack-obama-lloyd-billingsley
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