American Thinker: Those of us who want to reduce President Obama’s future influence in American politics are looking forward to the release of David J. Garrow’s new 1,400-page opus, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. Although Professor Garrow is a Bernie Sanders donor, he has a reputation as an honest, straightforward historian. This reputation is the result of his balanced and even somewhat damaging Pulitzer Prize winning book on Martin Luther King, Bearing the Cross(1986).
While some journalists have already received preliminary copies of Rising Star, most of us will have to wait a little longer since the book will be released on May 9, 2017. As for me, however, I have been waiting to read Garrow’s book since December 2011.
I was one of the 1,000 people that Garrow interviewed, a number he repeatedly refers to when he wants to present his book as the new, gold standard for Obama biographies. Garrow’s book is competing for this honor against David Remnick’sThe Bridge (2010) and David Maraniss’s Barack Obama: The Story (2012). Neither Remnick or Maraniss interviewed me even though they interviewed almost all of the students I knew at Occidental College between 1979-1981.
Oh My, I just can’t wait.
Let the finger pointing begin!
Fourteen hundred pages about obama. Even if it was a full disclosure, no bullshit account of who he is, there is no way I will ever be able to read that. Absolute torture.
“I listened to a radio interview he (the author of the book) gave to Jamie Weinstein and he flatly dismissed any suggestion that young Obama was gay, Marxist, Muslim or a beneficiary of the writing and editing skills of Bill Ayers, an unrepentant domestic terrorist.”
Well, hell. Who cares then?
joe6pak,
If you take out the words “I and Me” it boils down to 12 pages two of which have pictures on them.
I had to laugh at Drudge today. Seems Mat has nick named him “Bones”.
just saw him on Tucker tonight … real ideologue progressive nut-case
“this will be the definitive Obama biography for the next 45 years”
considered Obama the ideal politician in Chicago … “but he changed when he got to the White House” … uh, no … he was the same mommy-issues muzzie as he was in Chicago
Yay. Hundreds of pages with “Me me me, I, I, I, etc. And there are people who will actually pay good money for it too.
The movie version is already in the works.
Joe6pac,
For you because you need a laugh.
https://youtu.be/QXUlhT3-r0c
Brad, that looks like something I should buy for some people around here. Spontaneous Bowel Movements, that would be a helluva side effect.
More money laundering, he’s following the Klinton
route to billions.
1400 pages. How many ways can he say I, me, mine?
If it doesn’t show O’Bozo’s REAL birth certificate, and disclose his college grades, then it’s not a biography, it’s a hagiography.
Seems The Bard already covered it:
“A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a
base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,
hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a
lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson,
glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue;
one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a
bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but
the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar,
and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I
will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest
the least syllable of thy addition.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear
Even if the book was perforated so I could tear out each page to wipe my ass with, I have no interest whatsoever. Eight plus years of lying about this vandal are enough.
Until the topic is his prosecution and capital punishment (for treason), nothing about this fictitious character matters. Certainly not more piled on fiction.