Obama's America Unmaking the American dream

Dinesh D'Souza, 1961-

Book - 2012

In this blockbuster follow-up to the "New York Times"-bestseller "The Roots of Obama's Rage," D'Souza reveals how President Obama's recent actions prove his anti-colonialist roots and predicts how much worse America will be if President Obama wins a second term.

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Published
Washington, DC : New York : Regnery Pub. ; Distributed by Perseus c2012.
Language
English
Main Author
Dinesh D'Souza, 1961- (-)
Physical Description
258 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., ports. ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781596987784
  • Chapter 1. Inner Compass: Obama and the Importance of Ideology
  • Chapter 2. Invisible Man: Why Obama Remains a Mystery
  • Chapter 3. Absentee Father: Abandonment and the Formation of Political Identity
  • Chapter 4. Mommie Dearest: Ann Obama's Destructive Legacy
  • Chapter 5. Obama's Founding Fathers: Five Who Shaped Him
  • Chapter 6. Sellouts: The Ones He Left Behind
  • Chapter 7. Certificates of Absolution: Obama's Secret Weapon
  • Chapter 8. The Wealth They Didn't Earn: Decolonizing the U.S. Economy
  • Chapter 9. Drilling There But Not Here: Oil Drilling for Them but Not for Us
  • Chapter 10. Disarming the Rogue Nation: Iran? North Korea? No, America
  • Chapter 11. The Jihadi as Freedom Fighter: "Liberating" Occupied Territories
  • Chapter 12. Our Arab Winter: Weakening Allies, Strengthening Enemies
  • Chapter 13. Debt as a Weapon of Mass Destruction: ObamaÆs $20 Trillion Bomb
  • Chapter 14. Big Daddy: Obama as Lord of the Manor
  • Chapter 15. Surviving Obama: The Choice We Face
  • Notes
  • Index
Review by Kirkus Book Review

Conservative writer D'Souza (Godforsaken, 2012, etc.) further explores why he considers President Barack Obama "[t]he most dangerous man in America." The president of King's College in New York City and a former policy advisor to President Reagan, D'Souza co-wrote and -directed the financially successful 2012 documentary 2016: Obama's America, which painted Obama as being driven by an anti-American and anti-colonialist ideology. In this book, which expands on the author's The Roots of Obama's Rage (2010), D'Souza continues this line of attack, claiming that this ideology has made Obama "the architect of American decline" who "wants America to be downsized." The younger Obama, asserts the author, absorbed this virulent anti-colonialist worldview from his (largely absent) Kenyan father, as well as his Indonesian stepfather, both of whom D'Souza describes as "Third World, anti-American guy[s]." (He also portrays Obama's American mother as prone to "sexual adventuring.") The author plays up the influence of such familiar Chicago figures as the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and former Weatherman Bill Ayers, whom D'Souza terms "Obama's terrorist pal." All of these influences, writes the author, have shaped Obama's policies profoundly, particularly in energy and foreign affairs. Unfortunately, the author does not provide any solid evidence for his arguments, instead trafficking largely in guilt-by-association and apocalyptic predictions of "America's decline and fall." D'Souza has been criticized by liberals and mainstream conservatives for his strident theories; it seems highly unlikely that any minds will be changed by his latest book or by such statements as, "If Obama were white, he would have virtually no chance of being re-elected." Shallow and speculative at best, paranoid at worst.]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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