by Jack Cashill
Prairie Fire, 65
Primary Colors (Klein), 97
Profiles in Courage (Kennedy), 32, 115–16
Project Vote, 71
Prolegomena ad Homerum (Wolf), 113
Promise, The (Alter), 177
QSUM analysis, 98–99
Quayle, Dan, 31, 285
Raban, Jonathan: Dreams and, 14, 160
Obama’s speeches and, 160–61, 215
Race Course (Ayers and Dohrn), 58, 124, 194, 206, 218
Random House, 73–74
Reagan, Ronald, 31, 108, 233
Audacity and, 222–23
Rebellion in Newark (Hayden), 24
Reeve, Christopher and Dana, 2
Reid, Harry, 72
Remnick, David, 103, 166, 207, 242
Audacity and, 211–13, 222
Davis and, 285
Dreams and, 3, 70–74, 88, 90, 112–13, 116, 121, 127, 148, 199, 230
Keyes and, 176
Obama–Ayers relationship and, 50–51
Obama’s African pilgrimage and, 199–200
Obama–Said relationship and, 35
Obama’s education and, 171–75
Obama’s foundation work and, 51
Obama’s love life and, 184–85, 189–90
Obama’s mother and, 255–58
Obama’s politics and, 221–22
and Obama’s racial traumas and slights, 55
Obama’s signature appeal and, 18
Obama’s social life and, 73
Obama’s state senatorial campaigns and, 50
“Pop” and, 249
Sutton story and, 28
2008 presidential campaign and, 126, 148
Republican National Committee, 61–62
Republican National Convention, 30, 32
“Republicans Try to Use Oxford Don to Smear Barack Obama” (Baxter), 151–52
Resurrecting Empire (Khalidi), 102–4
Reynolds, Mel, 225, 278
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 227, 271
Rich, Frank, 226
Robeson, Paul, 270–72
Roe v. Wade, 169–70, 263
Rogers, Charles Elkin, 123
Roosevelt, Theodore, 12
Roots (Haley), 114–15
Rove, Karl, 31, 63, 219
Rudd, Mark, 41–44, 65–66
Rush, Bobby, 168, 224
Rusk, Barbara Cannon, 266–67
Saddleback forum, 62
Said, Edward, 34–37, 114
Ayers’s relationship with, 83, 104
and Chicago rally against Iraq War, 65
and creation of Israel, 34–35
Fugitive Days and, 49, 83
Jerusalem home of, 35–37
mythical life story of, 36–37, 101
Obama’s relationship with, 34–36, 38, 83, 103
postmodernism and, 87, 126
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea (Cahill), 193
Saltzman, Bettylu, 61
Sanchez, Rick, 170
Sandburg, Carl, 205–6
Sanders, Betty, 267
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 43
Saturday Night Live, 31
Saudis, 25–26, 101, 171
Sawyer, Eugene, 104
Schiffer, Paul, 137
Sea Wolf, The (London), 79
Secret Agent, The (Conrad), 83
“Secret Sharer, The” (Calco), 85
Selma, Ala., 18–19, 21
Senate, Ill., 51
Obama’s campaigns for, 12, 50–51, 109, 202, 244
Obama’s career in, 34, 104, 168, 221, 224
Senate, U.S.: Obama’s ambitions on, 61
Obama’s campaign for, 17, 63, 176, 178–79, 223–25, 286–87
Obama’s career in, 74, 211–13, 216, 221, 224, 243, 294
Watergate hearings and, 94 see also Congress, U.S.
Sex Rebel (Greene), 277–78, 284
Shakespeare, William, 97–98, 113, 229
Shales, Tom, 41
Shomon, Dan, 61
Siddiqi, Sohale, 185, 189, 197
Sidley & Austin, 191
Simon & Schuster, 70–73, 103
Sinclair, Larry, 284–85
Sing a Battle Song (Ayers et al.), 49–50
Sirhan, Sirhan, 65
Sixties Radicals, Then and Now (Ayers), 59, 124
Sloan, Helen Farr, 12
Smith, Ben, 161
Obama–Ayers relationship and, 40
Sutton story and, 26–27
Smith, Dinitia, 39
Smithsonian Institution, 290, 294
Soetoro, Ann Dunham Obama (mother), 103, 169, 243–44, 250–68, 287, 293
alleged nude photos of, 275–77
Audacity and, 209
Davis and, 275–76, 278–79
divorce of, 252, 255, 257–58, 260
Dreams and, 4, 94, 194, 248, 252–53, 257–58, 262, 278
education of, 19, 254–55, 257, 260, 264–66
Hawaii and, 45, 248, 260–61, 264–65, 276
in Indonesia, 45, 54–55
love between first husband and, 251–52, 254, 258
in naming son, 264
passport application of, 209, 244
questionable marriage of, 260–62
and son’s birth, infancy, and childhood, 19, 54–55, 176, 220–21, 250, 252–53, 255–59, 263–67, 279
son’s citizenship and, 209
son’s heritage and, 17–20
son’s speeches and, 17–18
trip to Harvard of, 256–57
in Washington, 19, 248, 254–59, 264–68, 276
Soetoro, Lolo (stepfather), 20, 45, 208–9, 244
Soetoro-Ng, Maya (half sister), 94, 249, 274
Sorensen, Ted, 32, 115–16, 217
Southwest, Mr., 204–7, 214, 242, 258, 280, 291
Soviets, Soviet Union, 61, 111, 141, 270–73
collapse of, 233
Stalinist Terror in, 271–72
Speech, The (Sharpley-Whiting), 226–27
Spencer, Jay, 77
Stalin, Joseph, 44, 46, 271–72, 281
State Department, U.S., 207
Steele, Shelby, 59, 173
Obama’s presidential campaign and, 72
on racism, 55–56
Stephanopoulos, George, 40–41, 210
Stevenson, Adlai, 31
Stewart, Martha, 238
Stoll, David, 233–35
“Stone Free,” 268
“Story of an Unlikely Hypothesis (and a Fine Book), The” (Millican), 154
Students Against Militarism (SAM), 164–65
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 23, 60
Sucker Punch (Cashill), 80–81, 204
Sullivan, Nancy, 102
Summers, Larry, 180
Supreme Court, U.S., 142, 176
Kagan’s appointment to, 182
Obama’s interview on, 147–48
Sutton, Percy, 24–28, 225
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 204
Swiftboaters, 135
Dowd on, 89, 138
on Kerry, 137–38, 229
Taranto, James, 129
Tate, Sharon, 42
taxes, 64
Teaching Toward Freedom (Ayers), 91
Tea Party movement, 291
ten-thousand-hour rule, 13–14
terrorists, terrorism, 89, 102–3
of Ayers, 2, 39–43, 83, 86, 103, 105, 117, 125, 152, 227–28
Dreams and, 86
nuclear weapons and, 141
on September 11, 25, 39–40, 68, 86, 208, 226
Thine Eyes, 120
Thomas, Clarence, 176–77
Thoreau, Henry David, 165–66
Tidwell, John Edgar, 277
“Time for Reflection, Celebration and Rebirth, A” (Ayers), 230
Times Books, 73
“To a Young Man” (Davis), 280–83, 285
Tomasky, Michael, 222
tort law, 168
torture, 89, 195
To Teach (Ayers), 74, 118, 120–22, 155, 166
> Travis, Randy, 130
Tribe, Laurence, 178–81, 213
on Goodwin’s plagiarism, 182
Obama’s relationship with, 178, 221
plagiarism of, 179–81
Turner, Nat, 195–96
2006 (Cashill), 291
Tzouliadis, Tim, 271
“Underground” (Obama), 245–46, 280
United Nations, 37
USA Today: on Andersen’s book, 1–4
on March for Life, 169–70
vast right-wing conspiracy (VRWC), 67–68, 70
Velvel, Lawrence, 179–83
Vesey, Denmark, 195–96
Vietnam War, 44, 47, 124–25, 206–7
casualties in, 93
end of, 124
Kerry in, 137–38
opposition to, 77, 95, 110, 206
terrorism and, 86, 152
Vincent, Lynn, 237
Vintage Books, 24
Waco incident, 68, 114
Wallace, Mike, 115
Wallace-Wells, Ben, 287
Wallsten, Peter, 101–2
Wardally, Kevin, 26–27
Warren, Earl, 147–48
Warren, Rick, 62
Washington, 278, 293
Obama’s mother in, 19, 248, 254–59, 264–68, 276
Washington, D.C., 128, 144, 148–49, 152–53, 156, 159–60, 196, 215, 218, 229–30
Audacity and, 211–12
Washington, Harold, 51, 166, 172, 274–75
Washington, University of, 254, 257, 264–66
Washington Post, 20, 26, 205–7, 231, 253–54, 256–57, 259, 274–75, 288, 291
Obama–Ayers relationship and, 41, 138
Obama’s speeches and, 161, 215
Obama–Wright split and, 227
Roots suit and, 114–15
Watergate, 94–95, 153, 270–71
Weather Underground, 38–44, 186–88
Ayers and, 2, 38–40, 43–44, 49–50, 65, 86, 188, 193, 292
Dohrn and, 38, 66, 125, 186
Jews in, 65–66
Rudd and, 41–44, 65–66
Weather Underground, 43–44
Weigel, David, 231
Weiner, Justus Reid, 36–37
Welch, Joseph, 182
What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said (Balkin), 179
What Does Barack Obama Believe? (Leahy), 254
What’s the Matter with Kansas? (Frank), 29–30
White, Theodore, 126
Whitman, Walt, 165–66
“Who’s Missing at the ‘Roe v. Wade’ Anniversary Demonstrations?” (Gesaman), 169–70
“Who Wrote Dreams from My
Father?” (Cashill), 16
“Why Organize?” (Obama), 87–88, 95–96, 166–67
errors in logic in, 167
noun-verb agreement problems in, 166
Willkie, Don, 242–45, 257–58, 270
on Obama’s father, 253
on Obama’s infancy, 266
on Obama’s poetry, 244–45, 249–250
Winfrey, Oprah, 88–89
Wise, Tim, 58–59
Wolf, Friedrich August, 113
Wolfowitz, Paul, 63, 65
WorldNetDaily (WND), 22, 110, 130, 141, 254
Dreams and, 16, 70, 76–77, 119, 150, 154
World War II, 46, 250, 271
Obama’s speech on, 61–62
Wright, Jeremiah, 175, 288
on audacity, 58
Ayers’s relationship with, 57, 293
Dreams and, 11, 51, 57, 198, 210, 274–75
Obama’s love life and, 190
Obama’s presidential campaign and, 18, 225–26
Obama’s relationship with, 18, 41, 56, 59, 103, 221, 225–28, 293
Obama’s speeches and, 18, 226–27
on racism, 56–57, 59, 210
Wright, Richard, 46, 57
Wurzelbacher, Joe “Joe the Plumber,” 64–65, 100, 118
Yavelow, Chris, 143–47
Zane, Pake, 260
