First published 2008
Jerome Corsi examines Barack Obama's rise from Illinois state senator to presidential contender. The author documents Obama's early years in Hawaii and Indonesia, his political beginnings in Chicago, and his record in the Illinois legislature. Corsi argues that Obama's associations with figures like William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, and Reverend Jeremiah Wright reveal dangerous leftist influences. He explores Obama's connections to Tony Rezko's real estate dealings and his ongoing ties to Kenyan politics through Raila Odinga. The book contends that Obama's domestic agenda includes radical abortion positions, anti-gun policies, higher capital gains taxes, and a global poverty tax on Americans. Corsi claims Obama's foreign policy relies on military reduction and nuclear disarmament based on naive faith in personal diplomacy. Drawing on over 600 footnotes, the author presents his case that an Obama presidency would repeat failed Democratic extremism from the 1960s and leave America weakened on the world stage.
Genres: american, political-science, biography-memoir, 21st-century, current-affairs, american-history
Vibes: suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: investigative-journalism
Setting: Hawaii, Indonesia, Chicago, Illinois, Kenya
Period: 2000s
384 pages · Hardcover · Threshold Editions