WND ^ | April 21, 2011 | Jack Cashill
Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2011 10:11:49 AM by RobinMasters
As Barack Obama's recently released tax return reveals, the president made $1,512,933 in book royalties in 2010, and that was a relatively slow year.
A children's book Obama produced, "Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters," appears to account for $131,075 of this amount with the rest divided between his 1995 memoir "Dreams From My Father," and his 2006 policy book, "The Audacity of Hope."
As I argue in my book "Deconstructing Obama," Weather Underground veteran Bill Ayers had little, if anything, to do with "Audacity" – indeed, he recently dismissed it as a "political hack book" – but he had everything to do with "Dreams."
The evidence strongly suggests that Ayers took over Obama's unfinished, un-publishable manuscript in 1994 and turned it into what Time magazine would call "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician."
The reader need not take my word for this. Christopher Andersen, in his 2009 book, "Barack and Michele: Portrait of an American Marriage," makes the same case based on interviews with Obama's friends in Chicago, quite possibly with Ayers himself.
A celebrity biographer with impeccable mainstream credentials, Andersen argues that, at "Michelle's urging," a "hopelessly blocked" Obama "sought advice from his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers."
What attracted the Obamas were "Ayers' proven abilities as a writer." Noting that Obama had already taped interviews with many of his relatives, Andersen elaborates, "These oral histories, along with his partial manuscript and a trunkload of notes were given to Ayers."
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