by Jack Cashill
Obama’s father and, 253–54
Obama’s mother and, 275–76, 278–79
Obama’s relationship with, 103, 107, 122–23, 221, 269, 274–75, 278–85, 293–94
as photographer, 276–77
physical appearance of, 273
poetry of, 103, 123, 270, 272, 280–83, 285
politics of, 45, 103, 221, 270–75, 279, 281, 288, 294
“Pop” and, 269, 273–74, 278–85
as pornographer, 277–78, 284, 288
racial issues and, 56, 122–23
Davis, Helen Canfield, 270, 279
Davis, Mark, 281
Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, 71, 73
Davis, Rich, 129, 242
Days of Rage, 41, 66
Dean, Howard, 286
Democratic National Convention (DNC), 38
Obama’s speeches at, 17–18, 32–33, 47, 60, 137, 213, 221–22, 240, 252, 287
Detroit riots, 125
“Did Bill Ayers Write Obama’s
‘Dreams’?” (Cashill), 76
Dohrn, Bernardine, 42–43, 102–3, 124, 194, 206, 218, 248
anti-Semitism and, 65–66
Obama’s relationship with, 103, 221
Obama’s state senatorial campaigns and, 50
Oughton’s death and, 42, 198
on racial issues, 58
terrorism of, 103
on Vietnam War, 125
Weather Underground and, 38, 66, 125, 186
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 43
Dowd, Maureen:
on Dreams, 288–89
plagiarism of, 89–90
on Swiftboaters, 89, 138
Dow Jones, 63
Dreams from My Father (Obama), 9–17, 44–59, 70–86, 90–98, 104, 138–56, 160–62, 192–206, 209–19, 237–39, 260, 264–66, 268, 284, 287–89, 292–94
on Americanization of Hawaii, 45–46
authorship of, 2–4, 12, 14–16, 25, 34, 38, 47–50, 52–53, 57, 65, 70, 73–74, 76–79, 82, 90, 97–98, 100, 103, 105–6, 109, 111–14, 116, 118–23, 127–33, 135, 138–47, 149, 150–56, 161, 166, 179, 188–89, 196, 203–5, 216–17, 229–31, 243, 287, 292, 294
Cashill’s purchase of, 2, 9–10
Cashill’s reading of, 11–12, 14–15
comparisons between Audacity and, 144–45, 210–13, 216–19
comparisons between Fugitive Days and, 4, 48–49, 77–80, 86, 88, 92–93, 100, 139–40, 145–46, 152, 154–56, 197–98, 200
comparisons between Livin’ the Blues and, 56
comparisons between Menchú’s book and, 233–35
comparisons between “Narrative
Push/Narrative Pull” and, 90–92
comparisons between Obama’s essays and, 166–67
comparisons between Odyssey and, 192–98, 200–202
comparisons between Palin’s memoir and, 237–38
Conrad’s influence on, 82–85
critical reception of, 14, 88, 193, 210–11, 218, 288–89
Davis and, 51, 122–23, 273–75, 294
distinctive poetic phrases in, 14–15
on education, 105–7, 109, 121–23, 172
genesis of, 70–74, 103, 132–33, 167–68, 182, 211–12
Heiden and, 131–34, 144, 147
introduction of, 131–33, 194, 288
Limbaugh and, 112–13, 116, 127, 129–30
nautical terms and references in, 78–82, 84, 155, 192, 195, 218–19, 243
on Obama’s African pilgrimage, 198–201
on Obama’s childhood visit to mainland, 93–95
Obama’s father and, 11, 19, 79, 94, 194, 198, 209, 252–53, 262, 265–66
on Obama’s grandfather, 82–83, 92–93, 248–50, 274
Obama’s HLR comment and, 168
Obama’s inauguration speech and, 160–61
on Obama’s life in Indonesia, 44–45
Obama’s love life and, 184–93, 195, 198
Obama’s mother and, 4, 94, 194, 248, 252–53, 257–58, 262, 278
postmodernism and, 87–88, 93
preface of, 47, 86, 131, 133, 216
publication date of, 51
on racial issues, 47, 54–57, 133, 204
on rage, 57–58
republication of, 215–16
royalties paid by, 74–75, 231
Sandburg glitch in, 205–6
2008 presidential campaign and, 3, 116–17, 128–30, 138–41, 143–45, 147–52, 154
Drew, John, 224
Dukakis, Michael, 32, 136–37
Duncan, Arne, 230
Dunham, Madelyn “Toot” (grandmother), 20, 55, 94, 257–59
grandson’s birth and, 265
grandson’s father and, 252–53
grandson’s love life and, 191
grandson’s presidential campaign and, 288
Hawaii and, 169, 194, 226, 244, 248–49, 253–55, 261, 264–65
Mendell’s interview with, 244, 261
naming grandson and, 264
Dunham, Ralph, 250
Dunham, Stanley Armour (grandfather), 20, 169, 258
background of, 61–62, 248
Davis and, 273–74, 278, 285
Dreams and, 82–83, 92–93, 248–50, 274
grandson’s childhood and, 176, 261, 266
grandson’s father and, 253, 265–66, 287
Hawaii and, 194, 248–49, 253–55, 261, 264
“Pop” and, 247–50, 270
Dunstan, Bruce, 84
Durham, Daphne, 73, 212
Durham, Richard, 53
Dystel, Jane, 70, 73–75, 100, 211, 225
East Bank Club, 73
East River, 121
economics, economy, 63–64
Cashill’s book on, 203
Iraq War and, 63
Obama’s interviews on, 147–48
Edwards, Joella, 121
Edwards, John, 60, 285
Egypt, 35–37
Einstein, Albert, 71
Eisenhower, Dwight, 19, 31
Englund, Will, 231
Enron Corporation, 69, 93
Erickson, Erick, 235
“Family Duties Took Precedence” (Obama), 168
Fanon, Frantz, 46, 206, 280
Farah, Joseph, 70
Far Side of the World, The (O’Brian), 202
Favreau, Jon, 161
Audacity and, 213, 216–18
Dreams and, 213–14, 218
Obama’s presidential campaign and, 225–26
Obama’s speeches and, 213–16
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 186, 273
feminists, 46, 188, 234–35
Ferraro, Geraldine, 175
Ferris, Henry, 73–74
fetal-maternal tort suits, 168
Fiction Fixer, 143, 145
Field Museum, 94
Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, The (Goodwin), 181
Flanagan, Brian, 193
Flesch Reading Ease Score (FRES), 48–49
Ford, Gerald, 31
Ford, John, 98
Forsaken, The (Tzouliadis), 271
Foster, Don, 97–99
Fox, Bob, 130, 135, 141, 144, 147, 150–53, 155–56
Franck, Matthew, 175
Frank, Thomas, 29–30
Free Gaza Movement, 65
Frey, James, 88–90
Friedman, Tom, 68, 76
Fugitive Days (Ayers), 39–44, 90, 98, 104, 118, 124–25, 186–88, 196–98, 217, 228
anti-Semitism and, 66
comparisons between Dreams and, 4, 48–49, 77–80, 86, 88, 92–93, 100, 139–40, 145–46, 152, 154–56, 197–98, 200
Conrad and, 83–84
on Michigan antiwar protest, 95
mistiming of, 133–34
nautical references and terms in, 78–82, 193–94
on Oughton, 186–87, 198
on racial issues, 196, 204
on rage, 57–58
Sandburg glitch in, 205–6
“Funerall Elegye in memory of the late Vertuous
Maister William Peeter, A” (Ford), 97–98
Game Change (Heilemann and Halperin), 27–28, 126
gay marriage, 223
Geiser, Ryan, 129, 172, 205–6, 242
on Ayers, 118–20
background of, 119
Obama’s love life and, 186
on Sandburg glitch, 206
Geller, Pam, 267
Gerson, Michael, 161, 169
Gesaman, Krista, 169–70
Gibbs, Robert, 213
Giuliani, Rudy, 25
Gladwell, Malcolm, 13–14
global warming, 232–33
Godfather, The, 186
God Save This Honorable Court (Tribe), 179, 181
Going Rogue (Palin), 237–38
Gold, Ed, 100
Goldberg, Jonah, 129
Goldfarb, Michael, 102
Goodwin, Doris Kearns, 181–82
Gordon, Dale, 284
Gore, Al, 30, 32, 42, 136–37
Nobel Prize won by, 232–33
Great Britain, 160
Dreams and, 150, 154
VRWC and, 67
Greatest, The (Ali), 53–54
Greene, Bob, 277–78, 284
Gregory, David, 67–68
Grunwald, Michael, 41
Guatemala, 233–34
Guevara, Che, 43, 47, 234
gun control, 168
Gunderson, Marge, 30–31
Haley, Alex, 114–15
Halperin, Mark, 27–28, 126
Hannity, Sean, 1–2, 41, 204, 228
Harnden, Toby, 18, 244, 274
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa, 190
Hart, Gary, 31–32
Harvard Law Review (HLR):
Obama’s presidency of, 70, 167–68, 173–75, 221
Obama’s writing in, 168, 173–74
Harvard Law School, 11, 51, 167, 175, 191, 198, 202, 224, 239, 292–93
affirmative action at, 173–74
B. Obama’s application to, 25, 28, 38, 171–73
Harvard Law School
B. Obama’s love life and, 185
B. Obama’s mentors at, 178, 182, 221, 292
M. Obama’s application to, 173
plagiarism cases at, 179–83
Harvard University, 31, 110, 172, 180–81, 230, 251–57, 290–91
Obama’s father and, 19, 194, 251–54, 256–57, 259, 265
Hawaii, 32, 100, 243–44, 248–49, 257–59, 287–88
Americanization of, 45–46
Ayers’s trip to, 243
and comparisons between Dreams and Odyssey, 194–95, 197
Davis and, 13, 45, 107, 123, 221, 270–73, 276
education in, 121, 123
ILWU strike in, 272
Obama’s birth and, 265
Obama’s citizenship and, 209
Obama’s father and, 94, 253–54, 259–61, 265
Obama’s grandmother and, 169, 194, 226, 244, 248–49, 253–55, 261, 264–65
Obama’s life in, 11, 13, 45, 78, 94, 107, 121, 123–24, 162, 177, 190, 221, 238–39, 244, 249, 253–56, 259, 264, 267, 274, 293
Obama’s mother and, 45, 248, 260–61, 264–65, 276
Obama’s vacations in, 168–69
Hawaii, University of, 123, 255, 258–60, 264, 273
Hayden, Tom, 23–24
Heaney, Seamus, 39
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 82–84
Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell from Things Heard and Seen (Swedenborg), 204
Heiden, Bruce, 130–34
background of, 130–31
Dreams and, 131–34, 144, 147
Heilemann, John, 27–28, 126
Hendrix, Jimi, 268
Hitchens, Christopher, 13, 172
Holmes, William Henry, 290
Holocaust, 62
Homer, 113, 192–98, 200–202
Hoodwinked (Cashill), 13, 98, 113–14
Hoover, David, 100
Hoover, J. Edgar, 270–71
Horton, Willie, 135–37
House of Representatives, U.S., 147, 164, 259
Obama’s campaign for, 168, 224, 244
see also Congress, U.S.
Houston, Charles, 174
Hudson River, 120–21
Hull, Blair, 286–87
Humphries, Rusty, 129, 204, 242
Hussein, Saddam, 62
Hyde Park Herald, 168–69, 211
Hyman, Mark, 144, 149
I, Rigoberta Menchú (Menchú), 233–35
Iliad, The (Homer), 113
impostor phenomenon, 71–72
Indonesia, 207–9
communism in, 45, 207
Dreams and, 54–55, 82–83
Obama’s citizenship and, 209
Obama’s life in, 11, 44–45, 47, 54–55, 161, 208, 220–21, 274, 293
Obama’s religious beliefs and, 208–9
International Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU), 271–72, 279
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 134
Iran, 195–96
Iraq War, 60–65, 89
Isaacson, Walter, 71
Ishmael, 64–65, 82–84
Islam, 114, 293
Ali’s memoir and, 53
Black Muslims and, 53–54, 57, 267
and Obama’s life in Indonesia, 45, 47
Obama’s religious beliefs and, 45, 208–10
and Obama’s trip to Pakistan, 199
Said and, 37
I Spy, 184
Israel, 34–37, 100, 211
anti-Semitism and, 65
creation of, 34–36
Obama–Said relationship and, 34
terrorism and, 25, 102
Jackson, Jesse, Jr., 225
Jackson, Jesse, Sr., 20–21, 56
Japan, 110–11
Japanese-Americans, 46
Jarrett, Valerie, 71, 224, 275
Jarrett, Vernon, 274–75
Jefferson, Thomas, 165–66
Jerusalem, 35–37, 101
Jews, 142
anti-Semitism and, 25, 60, 63–66, 227
see also Israel JGAAP program, 99–100, 143
Johnson, Lyndon, 228
Johnson, Paul, 43
Jones, Jim, 69
Jonestown deaths, 68–69
Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of
Autobiography (Said), 83
JournoList (JList), 27, 41, 43
Juola, Patrick:
author attribution technology and, 98–100
Dreams and, 142–43, 151
Justices and Presidents (Abraham), 179–80
