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CHAPTER 4
 
1
Kristen Scharnberg and Kim Barker, “The not-so-simple story of Barack Obama’s youth,”
Chicago Tribune
, March 25, 2007,
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-03-25/news/0703250359_1_barry-obama-sen-barack-obama-stories
.
2
Barack Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, p. 53.
3
Jake Tapper, “Life of Obama’s Childhood Friend Takes Drastically Different Path,” ABC News, April 3, 2007,
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3045281&page=1#.T9ieTOxn2uI
; David Maraniss,
Obama: The Story
, p. 290.
4
Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, pp. xi, 50.
5
Janny Scott,
A Singular Woman
, p. 7.
6
Tim Jones, “Barack Obama: Mother not just a girl from Kansas,”
Chicago Tribune
, March 27, 2007,
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-0703270151mar27-archive,0,2623808.story
; Scott,
A Singular Woman
, pp. 95, 119; Jonathan Martin, “Obama’s mother known here as uncommon,”
Seattle Times
, April 8, 2008,
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004334057_obama08m.html
.
7
Janny Scott, “Obama’s Mother—An Unconventional Life,”
New York Times
, March 14, 2008; Janny Scott, “A Free Spirited Wanderer Who Set Obama’s Path,”
New York Times
, March 14, 2008,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/us/politics/14obama.html?pagewanted=all
; Scott,
A Singular Woman
, p. 81.
8
Sally Jacobs,
The Other Barack
, pp. 118, 121, 125; Scott,
A Singular Woman
, p. 75.
9
Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, p. 125; Scott,
A Singular Woman
, p. 97.
10
Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, p. 273.
11
Norimitsu Onishi, “Obama Visits a Nation That Knew Him as Barry,”
New York Times
, November 8, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/world/asia/09indo.html?pagewanted=all
. .
12
Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, pp. 35–39, 41.
13
Ibid., p. 47.
14
Scott,
A Singular Woman
, pp. 125–27, 253.
15
Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, p. 46.
16
Ibid., pp. 47, 50.
17
Scott,
A Singular Woman
, pp. 6, 247.
18
Ibid., pp. 294–96, 336.
19
Ibid., pp. 145, 188, 249, 292; S. Ann Dunham,
Surviving Against the Odds
(Duke University Press, 2009), pp. 9, 14, 19, 267.
CHAPTER 5
 
1
“Bill Ayers to University Students: America’s ‘Game is Over’ and ‘Another World is Coming,’” the
Blaze
, May 2, 2012,
theblaze.com
.
2
Barack Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, p. 220.
3
Tim Cavanaugh, “D’Souza Puts Obama on Couch, Discovers Male Elektra Complex,”
Reason
, September 12, 2010,
http://reason.com/blog/2010/09/12/dsouza-puts-obama-on-couch-dis
; Shelby Steele, “Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism,”
Wall Street Journal,
September 1, 2011,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576532623176115558.html
; Shelby Steele, “A Referendum on the Redeemer,”
Wall Street Journal
, October 26, 2010,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304173704575578363243019000.html
.
4
Tim Cavanaugh, “D’Souza Puts Obama on Couch, Discovers Male Elektra Complex,”
Reason
, September 12, 2010,
reason.com
; Shelby Steele, “Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism,”
Wall Street Journal
, September 1, 2011,
online.wsj.com
; Shelby Steele, “A Referendum on the Redeemer,”
Wall Street Journal
, October 26, 2010.
5
David Remnick,
The Bridge
, pp. 96–97.
6
Frank Marshall Davis,
Sex Rebel
(Greenleaf Classics, 1968), pp. 14, 77; Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, p. 77.
7
Frank Marshall Davis,
Livin’ the Blues
(University of Wisconsin Press, 1992), pp. 315, 321; Frank Marshall Davis, “Frankly Speaking,”
Honolulu Record
, January 12, 1950.
8
Haunani-Kay Trask,
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii
(University of Hawaii Press, 199), pp. 3, 79, 171.
9
Davis,
Livin’ the Blues
, p. 323; John Edgar Tidwell, ed.,
Writings of Frank Marshall Davis
(University of Mississippi Press, 2007), pp. 93, 96.
10
Frank Marshall Davis, “How Our Democracy Looks to Oppressed Peoples,”
Honolulu Record
, May 19, 1949; Paul Kengor, “Obama’s Surrogate Anti-Colonial Father,” October 14, 2010,
http://spectator. org/archives/2010/10/14/obamas-surrogate-anti-colonial
; Davis,
Livin’ the Blues
, p. 277.
11
Edward Said,
Orientalism
(Vintage, 1978), p. 3.
12
Edward Said,
Culture and Imperialism
(Alfred A. Knopf, 1993), pp. 25, 30; Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, p. 103.
13
Edward Said,
The Question of Palestine
(Vintage Books, 1992), pp. xxi, 37, 143; Edward Said,
The Politics of Dispossession
(Vintage Books, 1995), pp. xv, xxvii, 31, 70, 82, 138, 178; Stanley Kurtz, “Edward Said, Imperialist,”
Weekly Standard
, October 8, 2001, p. 35.
14
Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, pp. 276, 437; Elise O’Shaughnessy, “Harvard Law Reviewed,”
Vanity Fair
, June 1990.
15
Remnick,
The Bridge
, p. 185.
16
Roberto Mangabeira Unger,
The Left Alternative
(Verso, 2005), pp. xix, 128, 134–35, 143, 146, 148, 164; Roberto Mangabeira Unger,
Free Trade Reimagined
(Princeton University Press, 2007), pp. 2, 197; Roberto Mangabeira Unger,
What Should Legal Analysis Become?
(Verso, 1996), pp. 108, 161, 165; Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Cornel West,
The Future of American Progressivism
(Beacon Press, 1998), pp. 30, 93.
17
Bonnie Kavoussi, “Roberto Unger, Obama’s Former Harvard Law Professor, Says the President ‘Must Be Defeated,’”
Huffington Post
, June 16, 2012,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/16/roberto-unger-obama_n_1602812.html
.
18
James Cone,
Black Theology and Black Power
(Seabury Press, 1969), p. 111; James Cone,
A Black Theology of Liberation
(Orbis Books, 1990), p. xvii
19
Jeremiah Wright, “Confusing God and Government,” April 13, 2003,
http://www.blackpast.org/?q=2008-rev-jeremiah-wright-confusing-god-and-government
.
20
Interview with Jeremiah Wright,
Bill Moyers Journal
, PBS, April 25, 2008, available at
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04252008/watch.html
.
21
Jeremiah Wright (speech, National Press Club), April 28, 2008, chi-cagotribune. com.
22
Edward Klein,
The Amateur
, pp. 39, 43, 50; Remnick,
The Bridge
, p. 533.
23
Ben Smith, “Ax on Ayers,”
Politico
, February 26, 2008,
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Ax_on_Ayers.html
.
24
Marcia Froelke Coburn, “No Regrets,”
Chicago
, August 2001, chica-gomag. com; Dinitia Smith, “No Regrets for a Love of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen,”
New York Times
, September 11, 2001,
http://www.nytimes. com/2001/09/11/books/no-regrets-for-love-explosives-memoir-sorts-war-protester-talks-life-with. html?pagewanted=all
; Ayers,
Fugitive Days
, p. 295.
25
Ayers,
Fugitive Days
, pp. 67, 114, 126, 143, 145–46, 162, 164, 265; Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, and Jeff Jones, eds.,
Sing a Battle Song
(Seven Stories Press, 2006), pp. 170, 315.
CHAPTER 6
 
1
Barack Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, p. 406.
2
Amilcar Cabral,
Return to the Source: Selected Speeches by Amilcar Cabral
(Monthly Review Press, 1973), p. 64.
3
David Anderson,
Histories of the Hanged
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2005).
4
Maraniss,
Barack Obama: The Story
, pp. 54–56.
5
Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, p. 426.
6
Jacobs,
The Other Barack
, pp. 15, 20, 30; Tom Shachtman,
Airlift to America
(St. Martin’s Press, 2009), p. 5; Peter Firstbrook,
The Obamas
, pp. 134, 151; Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, p. 410.
7
Firstbrook,
The Obamas
, pp. 152, 160; Jacobs,
The Other Barack
, pp. 21, 31.
8
Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, pp. 369, 397, 400, 407, 410, 414, 417; Firstbrook,
The Obamas
, p. 159.
9
Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, p. 406.
10
Mark Obama Ndesandjo,
Nairobi to Shenzhen
(Aventine Press, 2010), pp. 7, 172–73.
11
Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, pp. 341–42.
12
Ibid., pp. 343–44; Auma Obama,
And Then Life Happens
(St. Martin’s Press, 2012), p. 201.
13
John Vause, “Obama Brothers Meet in China,” CNN, November 18, 2009,
http://articles.cnn.com/2009-11-18/politics/obama.half
. brother_1_president-obama-chinese-president-hu-jintao-big-brother? _s=PM:POLITICS.
14
George Obama,
Homeland
(Simon & Schuster, 2010), p. 18; Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, pp. 431–32.
15
George Obama,
Homeland
, p. 273.
16
“Remarks of the President at the National Prayer Breakfast,” February 2, 2012,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/02/02/remarks-president-national-prayer-breakfast
; David Mendell,
Obama: From Promise to Power
, p 227.
17
George Obama,
Homeland
, p. xx.
18
Ibid., pp. 170, 192, 237, 249.
CHAPTER 7
 
1
Saul Alinsky,
Rules for Radicals
(Vintage Books, 1989), p. 12.
2
Sanford Horwitt,
Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky, His Life and Legacy
(Vintage Books, 1992).
3
Alinsky,
Rules for Radicals
, pp. 184–96.
4
Ibid., pp. ix, 25, 30–31, 36.
5
Jennifer Senior, “Dreaming of Obama,”
New York Magazine
, September 24, 2006,
http://nymag.com/news/politics/21681/
.
6
Obama,
Dreams from My Father
.
8
Shelby Steele,
A Dream Deferred
(HarperCollins, 1998), p. 119.
9
Shelby Steele,
White Guilt
(HarperCollins, 2006), pp. 24, 34–35.
10
Shelby Steele,
A Bound Man
(Free Press, 2008), pp. 76, 78.
11
Ibid., pp. 77–79, 85.
12
Ibid., p. 87.
13
Ibid., p. 86, 89, 95.
14
Ibid., p. 99; Barack Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, pp. 94–95.
15
Shelby Steele, “Obama’s Unspoken Re-Election Edge,”
Wall Street Journal
, May 25, 2011,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704569404576299241421694066.html
; Steele,
A Bound Man
, p. 116.
16
Mendell,
Obama: From Promise to Power
(Harper, 2008), p. 7.
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