Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President
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juvenile court system, 104
Kagan, Elena, 174
Harvard Law plagiarism cases and, 180, 182–83
Supreme Court appointment of, 182
Kakutani, Michiko:
on Audacity, 210–11, 218
on Dreams, 193, 211, 218
Kansans, Kansas, 32, 56, 58, 94, 147, 241–42, 278
Frank’s book on, 29–30
Obama’s speeches and, 17–18
alin’s vice presidential campaign and, 30
Kathleen Kennedy (McTaggart), 181
Katz, Marilyn, 60–61
Kellerman, Jerry, 185
Kennedy, John F., Jr., 115
Kennedy, John F., Sr., 18–19, 23, 31–32
and Profiles in Courage, 32, 115–16
Kennedy, Robert, 23, 65
Kenyans, Kenya, 58, 61–62, 133, 175, 187, 252–54, 256–61, 265–66
Davis and, 279
Dreams and, 11, 198, 200–201
Mau-Mau rebellion in, 252, 257–258
Obama’s birth and, 266
Obama’s heritage and, 17–19, 198
Obama’s relatives in, 252, 257–258, 261
Obama’s speeches and, 17–18
Obama’s trips to, 11, 47, 114, 198–201, 268
Kerry, John, 32
presidential campaign of, 137–38, 223, 229
Swiftboaters on, 137–38, 229
in Vietnam War, 137–38
Keyes, Alan, 176
Khalidi, Rashid, 101–4, 221
Kincaid, Cliff, 273
Kind and Just Parent, A (Ayers), 79–80, 103–4, 118, 121, 124, 155, 189, 194, 218
Kind of Light That Shines on Texas, The (McKnight), 121
King, Oona, 14
Klain, Ron, 181
Klayman, Rachel, 215
Klein, Joe, 14, 97, 222
Klonsky, Michael, 105–9
Koppelman, Alex, 267
Korean War, 93, 273
Kornell, Kathleen, 281
Krauthammer, Charles, 160, 227
Kristallnacht, 66
Kroft, Steve, 176
Kurtz, Stanley, 50–52
LaBolt, Ben, 35
Lake Michigan, 80
Leahy, Michael Patrick, 291–92
Dreams and, 292
Obama’s birth and, 258–59, 291
Obama’s mother and, 254–56, 266–67
on Obama’s parents’ marriage, 261
Leary, Anne, 230–31
Levingston, Steven, 205–7
Levitin, Daniel, 13
Lewinsky, Monica, 20, 40, 142
Liddy, G. Gordon, 149
Lieberman, Joe, 30
Lifson, Thomas, 110–11
Limbaugh, Rush, 111–13
Dreams and, 112–13, 116, 127, 129–30
Lincoln, Abraham, 14, 160
“Little on the History of Jews, A” (al-Mansour), 25
Livin’ the Blues (Davis), 13, 56, 81, 122–23, 186, 205, 253–54, 269–70, 272, 276–78, 284
London, Jack, 79
Longman, Andrew, 141–44, 147
Los Angeles, Calif., 241
and comparisons between Dreams and Odyssey, 194–97
Obama’s life in, 11, 124
Los Angeles Times, 34, 41, 62, 101–2, 208
Lu, Chris, 213
Lundestad, Geir, 235
McCain, John, 156
on Obama–Ayers relationship, 227
alin’s vice presidential campaign and, 30
presidential campaign of, 30, 102, 125–26, 148–49, 227
presidential election lost by, 159
McCarthy, Andy, 127
McCarthy, Eugene, 31
McCarthy, Joe, 41, 182
McCartney, Paul, 31
McGovern, George, 31
McKnight, Reginald, 121, 155
McMillan, Ian, 270, 279–80, 282
McTaggart, Lynne, 181
McVeigh, Timothy, 42
Maher, Bill, 235
Malcolm X, 46, 57, 267
Manson, Charlie, 42
Maraniss, David, 20, 253, 256–57
March for Life, 120, 159, 169–70, 263
Marshall, Josh, 89
Marshall Plan, 270
Marx, Karl, 43, 217
Marxists, Marxism, 29–30, 46–47, 53, 123–24, 234–35
Maslow, Abraham, 192
Matthews, Chris, 226, 237–38
Mboya, Tom, 253–54
Mead, Rebecca, 249
Menchú, Rigoberta, 233–35
Mendell, David, 51, 86, 199, 287
Audacity and, 212
and Chicago rally against Iraq War, 61, 63, 65
Obama’s education and, 171–72
Obama’s family members interviewed by, 244, 261
Obama’s love life and, 185
Obama’s politics and, 221, 224
Obama’s religious beliefs and, 210
Obama’s speeches and, 214, 242
Mikkelson, David and Barbara, 275–76
Milken, Michael, 51
Millican, Peter, 150–56
Million Little Pieces, A (Frey), 88–89
Milli Vanilli, 160
Moinjang tribe, 29
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 227, 271
Monsarrat, Gilles, 98
Moore, Marcy, 275–76
Moore, Michael, 136
“More Perfect Union, A” (Obama), 18, 175, 190, 215, 226–28
Morrison, Toni:
Ali’s memoir and, 53
on Clinton, 19–20
on Dreams, 14
Muhammad, Elijah, 53, 59, 267
Muhammad, Herbert, 53
Mundy, Liza, 172
My Grandfather’s Son (Thomas), 176–77
Nader, Ralph, 110
“Narrative Push/Narrative Pull” (Ayers), 90–92
National Press Club, 137, 226–27
National Review, 111, 175
Dreams and, 50, 52, 127–29
Nation of Islam (NOI), 53–54
“Navigating a restless sea” (Ayers and
Klonsky), 105–9
Newark riots, 23–24
Newton-Small, Jay, 212
New York, 11–12, 73–74, 101, 128, 229, 265
Ayers’s life in, 83, 123–24
and comparisons between Dreams and Odyssey, 196–98
education and, 120–21
Obama–Said relationship and, 34–35
Obama’s life in, 11, 34–35, 38, 121, 123–24, 185–86, 196–98, 278, 287
Obama’s love life and, 185–86
on September 11, 39–40
Sutton and, 24, 26
New York Times, 1, 35, 68–72, 88–89, 102, 149, 193, 210, 214, 226, 235, 238, 255, 287–88, 291
on Ali’s memoir, 54
on “Breaking the War Mentality,” 162
Dreams and, 88, 138
on Fugitive Days, 39–40
on impostor phenomenon, 71–72
on Obama’s HLR presidency, 174
on Said, 37
2008 presidential campaign and, 175
on Wurzelbacher, 64
Nobel Peace Prize: of Gore, 232–33
of Menchú, 233, 235
of Obama, 232, 235–36
Nobile, Philip, 115
Norquist, Grover, 149
nuclear weapons, 141, 161, 163–64, 239
Obama (Mendell), 51, 65, 86, 185
Obama, Auma (half sister), 199, 262
half brother’s love life and, 185–186, 189, 198
Obama, Barack Hussein, Jr.:
ambitions of, 5, 51–52, 61, 71, 109, 168, 172, 177, 223–24, 275, 292–94
birth of, 18, 64, 69, 199, 243–44, 251, 253–54, 257–59, 261–66, 279, 287, 291
charm and charisma of, 71, 178
children of, 40, 169
citizenship of, 208–9, 243
as community organizer, 11, 57, 198, 221, 224, 239, 293
consulting work of, 124
in debates, 40–41, 227
drugs used
by, 51, 280, 292
on education, 105–7, 109, 122
education of, 11, 20, 25, 28, 34–35, 38, 45, 51, 55, 57, 69, 73, 83, 121–24, 132–33, 161–62, 165–68, 171–75, 178, 183, 185, 191, 195–199, 202, 208–9, 214, 221, 224, 238–39, 245, 274, 278, 280, 293
finances of, 70, 73–75, 103, 133, 171, 211, 239
foreign policy of, 228, 232
foundation work of, 50–51, 109
friends and associates mistreated by, 75, 211, 225–28
heritage of, 17–20, 77, 103, 173–77, 187, 189–90, 194–95, 198, 201, 208–9, 221, 240, 245, 251, 288, 293
inauguration of, 160–61, 169
infancy and childhood of, 11, 19, 35, 41, 44–45, 54–55, 57, 83, 93–95, 121, 125, 176, 208–9, 212, 220–21, 224, 227, 247, 249–50, 252–53, 255–56, 258–61, 266–67, 274, 283, 288, 293
intelligence of, 3, 32, 69, 71–72, 116–17, 171–72, 174, 178, 224, 239–40, 243–44, 287, 294
interviews of, 16, 57, 147–48, 160
legal career of, 69, 71, 73, 191, 221, 224
love life of, 184–93, 195, 198, 202
luck of, 72
marriage of, 1–4, 11, 71, 73, 169, 172, 184, 190, 202, 212
mythical life story of, 18–21, 36, 251–52, 255–59, 261, 287–88, 293–94
name and naming of, 190, 264
newspaper column of, 168–69, 211
physical appearance of, 72, 185, 250, 265
poetry of, 4–5, 14, 244–47, 249–51, 269–70, 273–74, 278–85
politics of, 221–27, 229, 252, 281
popularity of, 3, 185
postmodernism and, 76, 87–88, 93, 155, 243
presidency of, 42–43, 47, 52, 68, 159–60, 170, 215, 220, 228, 232, 235, 251–52, 289
presidential campaign of, 2–3, 10, 18–19, 22, 24–27, 35, 37, 40–41, 47, 50, 52, 55–56, 64, 69, 71–72, 101–2, 113, 116–17, 125, 128, 138, 140–41, 145, 148–49, 151–53, 175, 178, 199, 202, 209–10, 223–29, 244–45, 251, 255, 258–59, 261, 281, 288, 291–93
presidential election victory of, 58–59, 156, 190, 202
on racial issues, 18–19, 54–59, 71, 81, 84, 90, 92, 95–96, 107, 109, 122, 124, 132–33, 173, 194–95, 198, 202, 204, 226, 243
reading of, 46, 57, 82–83, 103–4, 114, 133, 243, 279–80
religious beliefs of, 11, 21, 45, 56, 190, 198, 208–10, 221, 226–27, 293
secular humanism of, 45
as self-deluded, 173
self-esteem of, 224–25
sexuality of, 284–85, 293
social life of, 73, 212
speeches of, 4, 17–19, 21, 32–33, 47, 60–65, 116, 137–38, 160–61, 169, 175, 190, 199, 202, 213–16, 221–22, 226–28, 232, 235–36, 240, 252–54, 287
teaching career of, 73, 175, 239
writing skills and style of, 3, 11–12, 14, 69, 71–73, 78–85, 87–88, 90–92, 95–96, 103–4, 111–13, 120, 127–28, 138, 143–44, 146, 148, 155–56, 160–69, 178, 192–98, 200–201, 203–7, 211–17, 219, 229, 237, 243, 245–46, 279–80
Obama, Barack Hussein, Sr. (father), 58, 61, 176, 190, 243–44, 250–62, 264–66, 268, 281, 287
Audacity and, 209
Davis and, 279
death of, 11, 198–99, 209, 261–62
divorce of, 252, 260
Dreams and, 11, 19, 79, 94, 194, 198, 209, 252–53, 262, 265–66
education of, 19, 194, 251–54, 256–57, 259, 265
love between wife and, 251–52, 254, 258
in naming son, 264
physical appearance of, 19
questionable marriage of, 260–62
religious beliefs of, 209–10
and son’s birth, infancy, and childhood, 19, 252–53, 256, 258–60, 265, 293
son’s heritage and, 17–20
son’s speeches and, 17–18, 62
Obama, David (half brother), 199, 268
Obama, Hussein (grandfather), 175, 209, 252, 257–58
Obama, Kezia, 261
Obama, Mark (half brother), 262
Obama, Michelle (wife), 268
Dreams and, 11, 74, 202, 230–31, 292
education of, 172–73
husband’s romances and, 184–85, 189–90
legal career of, 191
marriage of, 1–4, 11, 71, 73, 169, 172, 184, 190, 202, 212
writing skills lacked by, 172–73
Obama, Roy “Abongo” (half brother), 202, 209
Obama, Ruth, 261–62
“Obama’s Narrator” (Wallace-Wells), 287
O’Brian, Patrick, 202
Occam, William of, 242–43, 250, 266
Occidental College, 83, 171, 195, 224, 239, 245, 280
“Ode to Obama” (Batton), 245–47, 249
Odyssey, The (Homer), 113, 192–98, 200–202
Ogletree, Charles, 178–81, 213
Obama’s relationship with, 178, 221
Olbermann, Keith, 41
O’Neill, Jennifer, 169
O’Neill, John, 137
Organizing for America, 3, 281
Orientalism (Said), 35
Ortley Beach, N.J., 80
Orwell, George, 24
Osnos, Peter, 70, 73–74, 76, 100
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 260
Oughton, Diana, 42–43, 186–88, 198
Outliers (Gladwell), 13
Owens, John, 185
Oxford University, 147, 150–54, 156
Palestinians, Palestine:
and creation of Israel, 34–36
Khalidi and, 101–2
Said and, 34–37, 114
Palin, Sarah, 237–40, 287
comparisons between Obama and, 238–40
intelligence of, 30–31
memoir of, 237–38
Obama–Ayers relationship and, 41, 103, 227
political campaigns of, 27, 30–32, 41, 148–49, 227, 239–40
Palin, Todd, 238–40
Palmer, Alice, 225
Parker, Ashley, 214
Parks, Rosa, 174
Patton, George S., 61
Pearson, Drew, 115–16
Pentagon, 40, 43, 228
Perle, Richard, 63, 65
Perot, Ross, 137
Plan, The, 221, 227, 236
“Politics and the English Language” (Orwell), 24
“Pop” (Obama), 5, 245–51, 269–70
authorship of, 250, 270, 279–80, 282, 285
comparisons between “To a Young Man” and, 281–83
Davis and, 269, 273–74, 278–85
Popes and Bankers (Cashill), 203
Port Huron statement, 23
Poseidon Press, 70