“the first sustained challenge to Obama’s control over his own story”

from GayPatriot by B. Daniel Blatt:

“the first sustained challenge to Obama’s control over his own story”:

Ben Smith, no conservative he, begins his review of “David Maraniss’s new biography of Barack Obama” by calling the book . . .

. . . the first sustained challenge to Obama’s control over his own story, a firm and occasionally brutal debunking of Obama’s bestselling 1995 memoir, Dreams from 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 volume, but by its conclusion I counted 38 instances in which the biographer convincingly disputes significant elements of Obama’s own story of his life and his family history.

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