Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President

From the author of What’s the Matter with California? comes a bold, well-researched examination of whether Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father— and whether it is more myth than fact.

How did Barack Obama, a man who had previously written little else, suddenly pen what Time magazine calls “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician”? Here, in Deconstructing Obama, political scholar and author Jack Cashill analyzes and pieces together Obama’s statements about his life to...